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Mau Mau crucible of war : statehood, national identity, and politics of postcolonial Kenya
- Title
- Mau Mau crucible of war : statehood, national identity, and politics of postcolonial Kenya / Nicholas K. Githuku.
- Author
- Githuku, Nicholas K. (Nicholas Kariuki)
- Publication
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- xviii, 555 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-521) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / by John Lonsdale -- Foreword / by Robert M. Maxon -- Inside the Mau Mau mind : "Returning the imperial" gaze in centennial perspective -- White man's country : the colonial foundations and legal architecture of the Kenyan state -- Colonial rupture : African experiential anxiety of transformation in time, space and place, 1900-1951 -- 52 minds on Kenya's destiny : the view from "the above" -- Drudgery in Pyrrhic victory : whither the fruits of independence? -- "Matigari ma Njirungi" : bifurcation, atomization and survival of the mentalité of struggle -- "Bado Mapambano," solidarity forever : latter-day travails of critical publics -- The long Kenyan century : a people's elusive quest for "the good life."
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-472
- ISBN
- 9781498506984
- 1498506984
- 9781498506991 (canceled/invalid)
- 1498506992 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015033416
- 40025706888
- OCLC
- 936410430
- Author
- Githuku, Nicholas K. (Nicholas Kariuki), author.
- Title
- Mau Mau crucible of war : statehood, national identity, and politics of postcolonial Kenya / Nicholas K. Githuku.
- Publisher
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-521) and index.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.AUTH: YORK COLLEGE/CUNY. REV. DISS. RE-EXAMINES COLONIAL & POST-COL. HIST; PIVOTAL MAU MAU WAR.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1952-1960
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40025706888
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-472