Unhappy Valley. Conflict in Kenya and Africa : Book One: State and Class Paperback / softback
by Bruce (Author) Berman, John Lonsdale
Part of the Eastern African Studies series
Paperback / softback
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A considerable revision in the understanding of the history of colonial Kenya and, more widely, colonialism in Africa. In the sister two volumes entitled Unhappy Valley 1 and Unhappy Valley 2, the authors investigate major themes including the conquest origins and subsequent development of the colonial state, the contradictory socialforces 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 issubstantial 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 contemporary Kenyan society and, in particular, of the British and Kikuyu 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 Marxisttheory of the state, and reflect on the role of history in the future of Africa. North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP WINNER OF THE TREVOR REESE MEMORIAL PRIZE 1994
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:James Currey
- Publication Date:23/04/1992
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- ISBN:9780852550229
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:James Currey
- Publication Date:23/04/1992
- Category:
- ISBN:9780852550229
