Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya - Loyalty and Martial Race Among the Kamba, C.1800 to the Present

Informationen zum Autor Myles Osborne is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Klappentext This work analyses the ethnicity in Kenya over the past two hundred years, focusing on the Kamba ethnic group that inhabits eastern Kenya. Zusammenfassung Based on extensive archival research and more than 150 interviews! Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya is one of the first books to analyze the complex process of building and shaping 'tribe' over more than two centuries. It reveals new ways to think about themes crucial to the history of colonialism: soldiering! 'loyalty'! martial race! and indeed the nature of empire itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Traders, warriors, and hunters; 2. Red dirt, red strangers; 3. Of volunteers and conscripts; 4. The destocking episode; 5. War and demobilization; 6. Controlling development; 7. Mau Mau; 8. Independence and beyond; Epilogue: 2013; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Myles Osborne, Myles (University of Colorado Boulder) Osborne, Osborne Myles
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.2016
• EAN: 9781107680524
• ISBN: 978-1-107-68052-4
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Africa / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Kenya, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, Relating to indigenous peoples, African History