Defeating Mau Mau, creating Kenya : counterinsurgency, civil war, and decolonization / Daniel Branch.

By:

Branch, Daniel, 1978-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: African studies seriesPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: xx, 250 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:

9780521113823 (hardback)
0521113822 (hardback)
9780521130905 (pbk.)
0521130905 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

967.62/03 22

LOC classification:

DT433.577 .B73 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-241) and index.

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