Tignor Colonial Transformation of Kenya

The Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai from 1900 to 1939
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7144-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 386 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Kenya’s central highlands are the elevated portions of East Africa that European colonists entered from the beginning of the twentieth century to make Kenya a white settlement area. This book analyzes the colonization of the Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai who live there. Robert Tignor focuses on changes in education, wage laboring, involvement in the monetized market system, and anticolonial nationalism from about 1900 to 1939.

Although the Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai all came under the influence of British administrators, settlers, and missionaries, the Kikuyu became most deeply involved in the colonial economy and polity of Kenya, taking the lead in activities spurned by the Kamba and Maasai. Examining the colonial records of all three peoples, Tignor compares these responses to European colonialism and advances our understanding of the nature of change under colonial rule.

Originally published in 1976.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Tignor, Robert L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
List of Tables, pg. viii
Preface, pg. ix
Abbreviations, pg. xi
I. Introduction: The Creation of Colonial Societies in Kenya, pg. 1
II. Early Contacts: Pacification and Land Losses, pg. 15
III. Colonial Chiefs, pg. 42
IV. Maasai Warriors, pg. 73
V. Labor to 1914, pg. 94
VI. Education to 1914, pg. 111
VII. Labor in the 1920s, pg. 145
VIII. Labor in the Depression, pg. 186
IX. Education and the Kikuyu in the 1920s, pg. 203
X. Kikuyu Nationalism, pg. 226
XI. Education and the Kikuyu in the 1930s, pg. 255
XII. Kamba and Maasai Education in the Interwar Period, pg. 273
XIII. Kikuyu Agriculture, pg. 288
XIV. The Stock-Rearing Economies of the Maasai and Kamba: Problems of Overstocking, pg. 310
XV. Destocking and Kamba Nationalism, pg. 331
XVI. Conclusion: Three Societies in 1939, pg. 355
Bibliography, pg. 361
Index, pg. 367