Defeating Mau Mau, creating Kenya : counterinsurgency, civil war, and decolonization /
Branch, Daniel, 1978-
Defeating Mau Mau, creating Kenya : counterinsurgency, civil war, and decolonization / Daniel Branch. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - xx, 250 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. - African studies . - African studies series. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-241) and index.
Introduction : understanding loyalism in Kenya's civil war -- Vomiting the oath : the origins of loyalism in the growth of Mau Mau -- Terror and counter-terror : March 1953-April 1954 -- From Mau Mau to home guard : the defeat of the insurgency -- Loyalism, land, and labour : the path to self-mastery -- Loyalism in the age of decolonisation -- Eating the fruits of uhuru : loyalists, Mau Mau, and the post-colonial state -- Conclusion : loyalism, decolonisation, and civil war.
9780521113823 (hardback) 0521113822 (hardback) 9780521130905 (pbk.) 0521130905 (pbk.)
2009013028
Mau Mau--History--20th century.
Mau Mau.
Kenya--History--Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960.
Kenia--Historia.
522 DT 433.577 / B816d 2009
967.62/03
Defeating Mau Mau, creating Kenya : counterinsurgency, civil war, and decolonization / Daniel Branch. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - xx, 250 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. - African studies . - African studies series. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-241) and index.
Introduction : understanding loyalism in Kenya's civil war -- Vomiting the oath : the origins of loyalism in the growth of Mau Mau -- Terror and counter-terror : March 1953-April 1954 -- From Mau Mau to home guard : the defeat of the insurgency -- Loyalism, land, and labour : the path to self-mastery -- Loyalism in the age of decolonisation -- Eating the fruits of uhuru : loyalists, Mau Mau, and the post-colonial state -- Conclusion : loyalism, decolonisation, and civil war.
9780521113823 (hardback) 0521113822 (hardback) 9780521130905 (pbk.) 0521130905 (pbk.)
2009013028
Mau Mau--History--20th century.
Mau Mau.
Kenya--History--Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960.
Kenia--Historia.
522 DT 433.577 / B816d 2009
967.62/03