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Unhappy Valley, Book Two - Conflict in Kenya & Africa (Paperback, New)
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Unhappy Valley, Book Two - Conflict in Kenya & Africa (Paperback, New)
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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
Two on Violence and Ethnicity gives new insights into popular
consciousness, into revolutionary change and into the subtle
realities of ethnicity; it will be of particular value to readers
of Ngugi.
General
Imprint: |
Ohio University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 1992 |
First published: |
April 1992 |
Authors: |
Bruce Berman
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Dimensions: |
215 x 135 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
304 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8214-1025-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
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LSN: |
0-8214-1025-3 |
Barcode: |
9780821410257 |
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