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Imperial Reckoning (Paperback, 1st Owl Books ed)
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"An extraordinary act of historical recovery."--"The New Yorker"
As part of the Allied forces, 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 compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps where
thousands met their deaths was the victim of a determined effort by
the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to
stop the Mau Mau uprising. Caroline Elkins spent a decade in
London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds
of survivors of the camps and the British and African loyalists who
detained them.
The result is an unforgettable account of the unraveling of the
British colonial empire in Kenya--a pivotal moment in twentieth-
century history with chilling parallels to America's own imperial
project.
"Elkins has bravely done justice to history." --"The Nation"
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"A vivid portrait of daily life behind the wire." --"The
Economist"
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""An important and excruciating record. It will shock even those
who think they have assumed the worst about Europe's era of control
in Africa." --"The New York Times Book Review
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