| ISBN |
0297847198 |
| Name |
Anderson, David, 1957- |
| Title |
Histories of the hanged : Britain's dirty war in Kenya and the end of empire / David Anderson. |
| Published |
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. |
| Description |
viii, 406 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map, port. ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes index. |
| Includes bibliographical references : p. 357-387. |
| Contents |
Prologue : the hanged -- 1. The hidden history of an anti-colonial rebellion -- 2. Burying the past -- 3. 'Parasites in paradise' : race, violence and Mau Mau -- 4. Death at Lari : the story of an African massacre -- 5. Struggles in the city : Mau Mau in Nairobi -- 6. General China's war : freedom fighters in the forests -- 7. Crimes of punishment : law and disorder in Kikuyuland -- 8. Spoils of war : decolonizing Kenya, memorializing Mau Mau. |
| Summary |
"In this book, a searing account of the final, bloody decade of British rule in Kenya, Oxford historian David Anderson presents new findings so extraordinary that they promise not only to redefine our understanding of the brutal war between the colonial government and the insurrectionist Mau Mau but also to reveal our historical dishonesty in failing to distinguish between terrorists and political insurgents.". |
| "Anderson's work reveals how, in the course of suppressing the Mau Mau revolt, Kenya's British rulers were responsible for thousands of unjustifiable killings, for gross abuses of both their own law and the laws of war, and for what are possibly the most brutal episodes of legal and physical oppression in twentieth-century imperial history. In uncovering thousands of new files and court transcripts, Anderson reveals that the British, with the knowledge of both Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan, committed untold atrocities against Kenyan subjects, putting over 70,000 people in prison camps and sending hundreds to the gallows without proper trial."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subjects |
British -- Kenya |
| Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 |
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