This long-awaited book is a considerable revision in the
understanding of the history of colonial Kenya and, more widely,
colonialism in Africa. There is a substantial amount of new work
and this is interlocked with shared areas of concern that the
authors have been exploring since 1976.
The authors investigate major themes. These include the conquest
origins and subsequent development of the colonial state, the
contradictory social forces that articulated African societies to
European capitalism, and the creation of new political communities
and changing meanings of ethnicity in Africa, in the context of
social differentiation and class formation. There is substantial
new work on the problems of Mau Mau and of wealth, poverty and
civic virtue in Kikuyu political thought.
The authors make a fresh contribution to a deeper historical
understanding of the development of contemporary Kenyan society
and, in particular, of the British and Kukuyu origins of Mau Mau
and the emergency of the 1950s.
They also highlight some of the shortcomings of ideas about
development, explore the limitations of narrowly structuralist
Marxist theory of the state, and reflect on the role of history in
the future of Africa.
Book One on State and Class will be used by students of African
history as well as of colonial Kenya; it is also concerned with the
theory of history and of political science.
General
| Imprint: |
Ohio University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 1992 |
| First published: |
June 1992 |
| Authors: |
Bruce Berman
|
| Dimensions: |
226 x 145 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
247 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8214-1017-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
0-8214-1017-2 |
| Barcode: |
9780821410172 |
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