Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
- ISBN-10
- 0805076530
- ISBN-13
- 9780805076530
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 475
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-01-11
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Caroline Elkins
Description
Reveals how the British colonial government detained more than one million members of Kenya's largest ethnic minority in prisons and work camps where many met their deaths as a result of a British attempt to stop the Mau Mau uprising.
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- 2005-12-27
- 498 pages
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- 2010-04-01
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