Colonial Kenya Observed
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-15536-7 (ISBN)
Immersing himself in knowledge of traditional language and law, he recorded the vast changes to local culture that he encountered after decades of working with both the British administration and the Kenyan people. This work charts the sweeping tide of social change that occurred through his career with the clarity and insight that comes with a total intimacy of a country. His memoirs examine the fascinating complexity of interaction between the colonial and native courts, commercial land reform and the revolutionised dynamic of labour relations. By further unearthing the political tensions that climaxed with the Mau Mau Revolt of 1952-1960, this invaluable work on the European colonial period paints a comprehensive and revealing firsthand account for anyone with an interest in British and African history. Fazan's story provides a quite unparalleled view of colonial Africa and the conduct of Empire across half a century.
S.H. Fazan was a Provincial Commissioner in Kenya. A classical scholar of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1911 he sailed to British East Africa (Kenya) where he worked continuously for the next thirty-one years in agricultural development in Africa, being latterly also an ex-officio member of the Legislative Council. He returned to Kenya between 1949 and 1963, and his most notable appointments during these years were as Defence Secretary, member of the Mau Mau Detainees Appeals Tribunal and the Committee for the Study of the Psychological Causes of Mau Mau. John Lonsdale is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and University Reader in African History, University of Cambridge.
The Author
Preface
A Note on Names
PART ONE: BRITISH EAST AFRICA.
1. Historical Background
2. Early Days of the Protectorate
3. First Impressions
4. Races and migrations
5. The First World War
PART TWO: THE COLONY DURING THE INTER-WAR YEARS
6. The Coast
7. Principal Events and Politics
8. Changes
PART THREE: GOVERNMENT IN THE AFRICAN LANDS
9. The Field Administration
10. African Authorities
PART FOUR: LAND
11. Agrarian Problems of the African Lands
12. The White Highlands
PART FIVE: THE LATER COLONIAL PERIOD
13. The Second World War
14. Post-war Settlement and Kikuyu Politics
15. The Mau Mau Revolt
16. Economic Development
PART SIX: TOWARDS INDEPENDENCE
17. The Lancaster House Conference and the End of the Colony
18. The Wind of Change
APPENDIX I: POLICY AND THEORY
APPENDIX II: AFRICAN LAWS AND CUSTOMS
Erscheinungsdatum | 20.03.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | 1 bw illus, 16pp bw plates |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 590 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-15536-5 / 1350155365 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-15536-7 / 9781350155367 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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