This history of the political economy of Kenya is the first full
length study of the development of the colonial state in Africa.
Professor Berman argues that the colonial state was shaped by the
contradictions between maintaining effective political control with
limited coercive force and ensuring the profitable articulation of
metropolitan and settler capitalism with African societies. This
dialectic of domination resulted in both the uneven transformation
of indigenous societies and in the reconstruction of administrative
control in the inter-war period. The study traces the evolution of
the colonial state from its skeletal beginnings in the 1890s to the
complex bureaucracy of the post-1945 era which managed the growing
integration of the colony with international capital. These
contradictions led to the political crisis of the Mau Mau emergency
in 1952 and to the undermining of the colonial state. The book is
based on extensive primary sources including numerous interviews
with Kenyan and British participants. The analysis moves from the
micro-level of the relationship of the District Commissioners and
the African population to the macro-level of the state and the
political economy of colonialism. Professor Berman uses the case of
Kenya to make a sophisticated contribution to the theory of the
state and to the understanding of the dynamics of the development
of modern African political and economic institutions.
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