| Description |
1 online resource (331 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Note |
Completed in 1969; not previously published. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-351) and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. British East Africa. Historical background -- Early days of the Protectorate -- First impressions -- Races and migrations -- The First World War. -- Part 2. The Colony during the inter-war years. The coast -- Principal events and politics -- Changes. -- Part 3. Government in the African lands. The field administration -- African authorities. -- Part 4. Land. Agrarian problems of the African lands -- The white highlands. -- Part 5. The later colonial period. The Second World War -- Post-war settlement and Kikuyu politics -- The Mau Mau revolt -- Economic development. -- Part 6. Towards independence. The Lancaster House Conference and the end of the colony -- The wind of change. Appendix 1: Policy and theory -- Appendix 2: African laws and customs -- Appendix 3: An economic survey of the Kikuyu reserves. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Mau Mau -- History.
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Kenya -- Politics and government -- To 1963.
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration.
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Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lonsdale, John, editor, writer of foreword, writer of added commentary.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fazan, S. H. Colonial Kenya observed : British rule, Mau Mau and the wind of change. London : I.B. Tauris, 2015 xlii, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm 9781780768656 (OCoLC)ocn898058399 |
| ISBN |
9781780768656 (hardback) |
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1780768656 (hardback) |
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9780857737847 (e-book) |
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