Unhappy Valley. Conflict in Kenya and Africa - Book Two: Violence and Ethnicity

Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-0-85255-099-1
Verlag: James Currey

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 384 g

Reihe: Eastern African Studies

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berman, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART FIVE: THE UNHAPPY VALLEY
Bureaucracy and Incumbent Violence: Colonial Administration and the Origins of the 'Mau Mau' Emergency - Bruce Berman
The Moral Economy of Mau Mau: The Problem - John Lonsdale
The Moral Economy of Mau Mau: Wealth, Poverty and Civic Virtue in Kikuyu Political Thought - John Lonsdale