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Defeating Mau Mau, creating Kenya : counterinsurgency, civil war, and decolonization / Daniel Branch.
Van Pelt Library DT433.577 .B73 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Branch, Daniel, 1978-
- Series:
- African studies series
- African studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mau Mau.
- History.
- Kenya--History--Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960.
- Kenya.
- Mau Mau--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 250 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Introduction : understanding loyalism in Kenya's civil war
- Vomiting the oath : the origins of loyalism in the growth of Mau Mau
- Terror and counter-terror : March 1953-April 1954
- From Mau Mau to home guard : the defeat of the insurgency
- Loyalism, land, and labour : the path to self-mastery
- Loyalism in the age of decolonisation
- Eating the fruits of uhuru : loyalists, Mau Mau, and the post-colonial state
- Conclusion : loyalism, decolonisation, and civil war.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-241) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521113823
- 0521113822
- 9780521130905
- 0521130905
- OCLC:
- 317383511
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