| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 475 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [433]-449) and index. |
| Contents |
Pax Britannica -- Britain's assault on Mau Mau -- Screening -- Rehabilitation -- The birth of Britain's Gulag -- The world behind the wire -- The hard core -- Domestic terror -- Outrage, suppression, and silence -- Detention exposed. |
| Summary |
Thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II, but just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu--some one and a half million people. The story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold, because of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau uprising, the Kikuyu people's ultimately successful bid for Kenyan independence--Publisher. |
| Subject |
Kikuyu (African people) -- History -- 20th century.
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Prisons -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century.
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Political prisoners -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century.
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Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 -- Prisoners and prisons, British.
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| ISBN |
9780805067804 |
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0805067809 |
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0805076530 |
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9780805076530 |
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