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Ethnicity and empire in Kenya : loyalty and martial race among the Kamba, c. 1800 to the present /
This work analyses the ethnicity in Kenya over the past 200 years, focusing on the Kamba ethnic group that inhabits eastern Kenya.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Traders, warriors, and hunters
- Red dirt, red strangers
- Of volunteers and conscripts
- The destocking episode
- War and demobilization
- Controlling development
- Mau Mau
- Independence and beyond.
- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; List of maps; Introduction; Chapter 1 Traders, warriors, and hunters; Migration and trade; People of the bow; Local bonds; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Red dirt, red strangers; Ecological disaster; Red strangers; Chiefs and cattle, athiani and authority; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Of volunteers and conscripts; The ""War of theQuivers""; Communities in crisis; ""Rejects"" and""man-eaters""; An ethnic bond?; Chapter 4 The destocking episode; A reassessment in Ukambani; A march and a""sit-in""
- Understanding the ""Ivinda ya Ng''ombe""(Time of Cattle)Martial men; The Mombasa strikes; Conclusion; Chapter5 War and demobilization; Recruitment and service; War and""tribe""; The return of the Askaris; A new cadre of leaders; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Controlling development; Changes in everyday life; Men and women; Development and welfare for Africa; Conclusion; Chapter7 Mau Mau; Mau Mau among the Kamba; The Pipeline; British concern and the ""development deal""; Contesting ""loyalty""and chiefship; Women and virtue; Conclusion; Chapter 8 Independence and beyond.
- The road to ""uhuru""[independence]Winning Kamba votes; The army; Soldiering, ethnicity, and community; Epilogue; Bibliography; Interviews; Archival sources; Kenya National Archives, Nairobi; National Archives of the United Kingdom, London; Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House, Oxford; Africa Inland Mission Archives, Nairobi; Billy Graham Center Archives and Wheaton College Archives and Special Collections, Wheaton, IL; Church Missionary Society Archives, Birmingham, UK; Imperial War Museum, London; Government publications; Other periodicals and newspapers.
- Personal communicationsWebsites; Kikamba vocabularies, dictionaries, and grammars; Biblical translations in Kikamba; Unpublished theses and papers; Books and articles; Index.