Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of EmpireA RIVETING ACCOUNT of Britain's final bloody decade in Kenya, this book tells the story of the brutal war between the colonial government and the insurrectionist Mau Mau between 1952 and 1960. New findings cast the Gikuyu rebels--hardly the terrorist they were thought to be--in a new light and reveal the British to be brutal aggressors in a "dirty war" that involved, among others, Winston Churchill and Harold MacMillan. This astonishing piece of scholarship portrays a teetering colonial empire in its final phase--employing whatever military and propaganda methods were necessary to preserve an order that could no longer hold. |
Contents
The Hidden History of an AntiColonial Rebellion | 9 |
Making a Rebellion | 13 |
Emerging Violence | 41 |
Burying the Past | 54 |
Chief Waruhiu | 55 |
Jock Scott and Judge Thacker | 61 |
Going to War | 68 |
Christmas Eve in Nyeri | 72 |
Fighting Back | 212 |
Corruption at City Hall | 224 |
General Chinas War Freedom Fighters in the Forests | 230 |
Flight to the Forests | 235 |
Bugles and Battles | 251 |
Surrenders | 273 |
Psycho Docs and Pseudo Ops | 279 |
Crimes of Punishment Law and Disorder in Kikuyuland | 289 |
Parasites in Paradise Race Violence and Mau Mau | 77 |
A sunny land for shady people | 79 |
Killing Bwana | 86 |
Them or us | 95 |
Paradise Postponed | 111 |
Death at Lari The Story of an African Massacre | 119 |
Victims and Vengeance | 125 |
A Deeper History | 139 |
Courtroom Dramas | 151 |
Executions | 173 |
Colonial Consequences | 177 |
Struggles in the City Mau Mau in Nairobi | 181 |
African Life in Eastlands | 184 |
Terrorizing the Taitai | 190 |
Operation Anvil | 200 |
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Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire David Anderson Limited preview - 2011 |
Histories of the Hanged: Britain's Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire David Anderson No preview available - 2011 |
Histories of the Hanged: Britain's Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire David Anderson No preview available - 2011 |
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Page 1 - To understand Africa you must understand a basic impulsive savagery that is greater than anything we 'civilized' people have encountered in two centuries.