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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
Subjects
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.
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Chronological Term
1952-1960
Local Subject
Black author.
Other Standard Identifier
40025706888
Research Call Number
Sc E 19-472
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