Britain's Gulag by Caroline Elkins
The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of one-and-a half-million - to hold them in camps or confine them in villages ringed with barbed wire - and to portray them as sub-human savages.
"This is the once and continuing dark side we can never escape - or honestly acknowledge..this is where we have been and may stray again" -- Peter Preston * Observer *
"It is a story which has never before been told...It is a story of unremitting brutality, rape and torture" * Christopher Hudson, Daily Mail *
"The Mau Mau did not get the recognition due to them...and Britain never got the comeuppance it deserved. Half a century later, a 'revisionist' historian like [Niall] Ferguson, seeking to rehabilitate the empire after a decent interval, could still blithely ignore the whole affair. This is no longer an option...Elkins [has] seen to that" -- Bernard Porter * London Review of Books *
"This vital study... shocking" -- Ian Critchley * Sunday Times *
"It is a story which has never before been told...It is a story of unremitting brutality, rape and torture" * Christopher Hudson, Daily Mail *
"The Mau Mau did not get the recognition due to them...and Britain never got the comeuppance it deserved. Half a century later, a 'revisionist' historian like [Niall] Ferguson, seeking to rehabilitate the empire after a decent interval, could still blithely ignore the whole affair. This is no longer an option...Elkins [has] seen to that" -- Bernard Porter * London Review of Books *
"This vital study... shocking" -- Ian Critchley * Sunday Times *
Caroline Elkins is a Professor of History at Harvard University and the recipient of numerous awards, including a Fulbright and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship. Her research for Britain's Gulag was the subject of the BBC documentary 'Kenya: White Terror', which was shown in Britain in November 2002 and was awarded the International Committee of the Red Cross prize at the Monte Carlo Festival.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844135486 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844135489 |
| Title | Britain's Gulag |
| Author | Caroline Elkins |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2005-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
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