Unhappy valley : conflict in Kenya & Africa

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Unhappy valley : conflict in Kenya & Africa

Bruce Berman & John Lonsdale

（Eastern African studies）

J. Currey , Heinemann Kenya , Ohio University Press, 1992

  • Book 1 : pbk
  • Book 2 : pbk

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  • Book l. State & class
  • Book 2. Violence & ethnicity

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Book 1 : pbk ISBN 9780852550229

Description

A considerable revision in the understanding of the history of colonial Kenya and, more widely, colonialism in Africa. In the sister two volumes entitled Unhappy Valley 1 and Unhappy Valley 2, the authors investigate major themes including the conquest origins and subsequent development of the colonial state, the contradictory socialforces that articulated African societies to European capitalism, and the creation of new political communities and changing meanings of ethnicity in Africa, in the context of social differentiation and class formation. There issubstantial new work on the problems of Mau Mau and of wealth, poverty and civic virtue in Kikuyu political thought. The authors make a fresh contribution to a deeper historical understanding of contemporary Kenyan society and, in particular, of the British and Kikuyu origins of Mau Mau and the emergency of the 1950s. They also highlight some of the shortcomings of ideas about development, explore the limitations of narrowly structuralist Marxisttheory of the state, and reflect on the role of history in the future of Africa. North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP WINNER OF THE TREVOR REESE MEMORIAL PRIZE 1994

Table of Contents

Introduction: An Encounter in Unhappy Valley. - John Lonsdale Introduction: An Encounter in Unhappy Valley PART ONE: CONQUEST - Bruce Berman The Conquest State of Kenya 1895-1905 - John Lonsdale The Politics of Conquest in Western Kenya 1894-1908 PART TWO: CONTRADICTIONS & THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLONIAL STATE - John Lonsdale Coping with the Contradictions 1895-1914: The Development of the Colonial State, 1895-1914 - Bruce Berman Coping with the Contradictions 1895-1914: The Development of the Colonial State, 1895-1914 - John Lonsdale Crises of Accumulation, Coercion & the Colonial State: The Development of the Labour Control System, 1919-1929 - Bruce Berman Crises of Accumulation, Coercion & the Colonial State: The Development of the Labour Control System, 1919-1929 PART THREE: CAPITALISM & THE COLONIAL STATE IN THEORETICAL & COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE - John Lonsdale The Concept of 'Articulation' and the Political Economy of Colonialism - Bruce Berman Structure and Process in the Bureaucratic States of Colonial Africa PART FOUR: PASTS & FUTURES - Bruce Berman Up from Structuralism - Bruce Berman African Pasts in Africa's Future - John Lonsdale
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Book 2 : pbk ISBN 9780852550991

Description

A considerable revision in the understanding of the history of colonial Kenya and, more widely, colonialism in Africa. In the sister two volumes entitled Unhappy Valley 1 and Unhappy Valley 2, the authors investigate major themes including the conquest origins and subsequent development of the colonial state, the contradictory socialforces that articulated African societies to European capitalism, and the creation of new political communities and changing meanings of ethnicity in Africa, in the context of social differentiation and class formation. There issubstantial new work on the problems of Mau Mau and of wealth, poverty and civic virtue in Kikuyu political thought. The authors make a fresh contribution to a deeper historical understanding of contemporary Kenyan society and, in particular, of the British and Kikuyu origins of Mau Mau and the emergency of the 1950s. They also highlight some of the shortcomings of ideas about development, explore the limitations of narrowly structuralist Marxisttheory of the state, and reflect on the role of history in the future of Africa. North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP WINNER OF THE TREVOR REESE MEMORIAL PRIZE 1994

Table of Contents

PART FIVE: THE UNHAPPY VALLEY Bureaucracy and Incumbent Violence: Colonial Administration and the Origins of the 'Mau Mau' Emergency - Bruce Berman The Moral Economy of Mau Mau: The Problem - John Lonsdale The Moral Economy of Mau Mau: Wealth, Poverty and Civic Virtue in Kikuyu Political Thought - John Lonsdale

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