Histories of the Hanged - Britains Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire - Poche

Name: Histories of the Hanged
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Author: David Anderson
ISBN: 9780753819029

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Fifty years ago, an optimistic and proud Britain emerged from the Second World War still with an Empire and a leading role in world affairs. But within... Lire la suite

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Fifty years ago, an optimistic and proud Britain emerged from the Second World War still with an Empire and a leading role in world affairs. But within a few years everything would change. In Africa, the rise of nationalism brought British power to its knees. In the struggle to retain influence and authority, the British government that had a decade earlier stood firm against tyranny now became the tyrant. In Kenya, the bitter and violent Mau Mau rebellion against British white rule saw the death of thirty-two white settlers. But more than 12, 000 Mau Mau rebels were killed. At the peak of the struggle Britain held more than 70, 000 Africans in detention camps without trial. Histories of the Hanged is the shocking true story of Britain's first war on terror.

Date de parution

01/02/2006
Editeur

Phoenix
ISBN

0-7538-1902-3
EAN

9780753819029
Format

Poche
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Nb. de pages

406 pages
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0.54 Kg
Dimensions

13,5 cm × 21,5 cm × 3,2 cm

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Biographie de David Anderson

David Anderson has been teaching and writing about the history of Kenya for ore than twenty Years. Formerly a Research Associate at the University of Nairobi, Lecturer in Imperial History at Birkbeck College, London, and Senior Lecturer in African History and Director of the Centre of African Studies at SOAS, London, he is now a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. A regular commentator on current affairs in Kenya and in Africa more generally, as well as an author and editor of ten books on the region's past, his work has ranged widely across the history and politics of the continent. Histories of the Hanged is the product of systematic research through the colonial archives in Kenya and in Britain, and is the reflection of a career spent intimately engaged with the story of Britain's colonial misadventure in Kenya. He is married to a doctor, Angie, and they live in Oxford with their four children.