Mau Mau and Nationhood by E S Atieno Odhiambo

Mau Mau and Nationhood by E S Atieno Odhiambo

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Mau Mau and Nationhood by E S Atieno Odhiambo

Fifty years after the declaration of the state of emergency, Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself. Mau Mau and Nationhood is a collection of essays providing the most recent thinking on the uprising and its aftermath. The work of well-established scholars as well as of young researchers with fresh perspectives, Mau Mau and Nationhood achieves a multilayered analysis of a subject of enduring interest. According to Terence Ranger, Emeritus Rhodes Professor, Oxford, "In some ways the historiography of Mau Mau is a supreme example not only of ambiguity and complexity, but also of redemption of a topic once thought incapable of rational analysis."
“A thousand words can never do justice to this tremendous collection, so I will state at the outset that it is a must read” * American Historical Review *

E. S. Atieno Odhiambo was a professor of history at Rice University. He is the author of The Paradox of Collaboration and Other Essays, and Siaya: Politics and Nationalism in East Africa, 1905-1939. He is the editor of African Historians and African Voices and coeditor, with David William Cohen, of The Risks of Knowledge.

John Lonsdale is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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ISBN 13 9780821414842
ISBN 10 0821414844
Title Mau Mau and Nationhood
Author E S Atieno Odhiambo
Series Eastern African Studies
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Ohio University Press
Year published 2003-01-31
Number of pages 320
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