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.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press
2014.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46449863*spi |
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.
