To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Caroline Elkins, an assistant professor of history at Harvard University, spent a decade in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of Kikuyu men and women who survived the British camps, as well as the British and African loyalists who detained them.

Well written and well researched. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. A great book, but why not use the word genocide? Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya. Caroline Elkins, an assistant professor of history at Harvard University, spent a decade in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of Kikuyu men and women who survived the British camps, as well as the British and African loyalists who detained them. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. What's even more sad is that some of the same cruel colonialists still live in Kenya today since not all the settlers moved away after independence. There's a problem loading this menu right now. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Imperial Reckoning shows us how these images neglected to show the brutality and savagery being committed against the Kenyan Kikuyu people detained by the British. The majority of settlers moved to Rhodesia and South Africa after independence but a large number of them remained and still occupy vast tracts of prime land in a free, independent and democratic Kenya to this date.

Her sources are the Mau Mau fighters and sympathizers whom the British detained in concentration camps during the 1950s. Imperial Reckoning shows us how these images neglected to show the brutality and savagery being committed against the Kenyan Kikuyu people detained by the British. The basis is fact which has been embellished somewhat. Tell readers what you thought by rating and reviewing this book. Pamphlets in the vernacular, pointing out how misguided was the detainees` belief that African land had been stolen by the British, were circulated throughout the compound. If you want to read one book this year about the catastrophic consequences of racism, about the cruelty of those who dehumanize others, or about the crimes that ideologically besotted people--including from western democratic countries--can self-righteously commit, Imperial Reckoning is that book.” ―Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust and recipient of Germany's Democracy Prize“Given the number and nature of the atrocities that filled the 20th century, the degree of brutality and violence perpetrated by British settlers, police, army and their African loyalist supporters against the Kikuyu during the Mau Mau period should not be surprising.

Ich habe das Buch gelesen weil mich der Roman "Schatten des Schwurs" darauf aufmerksam gemacht hat. Elkins, working in archives and traveling throughout Kenya, has undertaken an extraordinary act of historical recovery, to find out what the burned documents would have told us: the British, in their "civilizing mission" to pacify the colony, created a cruel system of detention centers, where interrogations often ended in death. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. The Author has believed all the stories she was given. Beginning with a trenchant account of British colonial enterprise in Kenya, Elkins charts white supremacy's impact on Kenya's largest ethnic group, the Kikuyu, and the radicalization of a Kikuyu faction sworn by tribal oath to extremism known as Mau Mau.

An eyeopener. With voluminous evidence, Caroline Elkins exposes the long suppressed crimes and brutalities that democratic Britain and British settlers willingly perpetrated upon hundreds of thousands of Africans--truths that will permit no one of good faith to continue to accept the mythologized account of Britain's colonial past as merely a 'civilizing mission.'

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 March 2017, pleased with the product. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. I persisted since I was going to lead Healing from War and Genocide workshops in Nigeria and Kenya in May 2017 for Black Africans from about 17 different countries. A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in KenyaAs part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. The book will give a climpse into the workings of the british empire in kenya and the books does a great job of telling the truth about the terriable things the british were doing to the people of kenya. There are 0 reviews and 0 ratings from Australia. British officials later destroyed almost all official records of the campaign. There was a problem loading your book clubs. In a major historical study, Elkins, an assistant professor of history at Harvard, relates the gruesome, little-known story of the mass internment and murder of thousands of Kenyans at the hands of the British in the last years of imperial rule. Unable to add item to List. I grew up in Kenya in Kikuyu and I always heard stories from my grandmother and great grandmother how horrible the British were, but I was young and had no idea how bad it was for our grandparents who survived the colonial period. I grew up in Kenya in Kikuyu and I always heard stories from my grandmother and great grandmother how horrible the British were, but I was young and had no idea how bad it was for our grandparents who survived the colonial period. “Confess and Save Your Land,“ was one public broadcast played throughout the Pipeline, and it is bitterly remembered by many of the former detainees today. Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2019. The cruel and sadistic Brits who went to great lengths to cover their tracks finally exposed for who they really were in Africa, Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2015. While only 32 white settlers were killed by Mau Mau insurgents, Elkins reports that tens of thousands of Kenyans were slaughtered, perhaps up to 300,000. A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in KenyaAs part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. Does this book contain inappropriate content? Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. This was one of the hardest book that I ever read, even though it was well written and interesting. The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800-1910, Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 (Envisioning Cuba), Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya, Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People, Kenya - Culture Smart! thanks, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2018. The British Colonial Office, struggling to preserve its far-flung empire of dependencies after World War II, spread hysteria about Kenya's Mau Mau independence movement by depicting its supporters among the Kikuyu people as irrational terrorists and monsters. So too are photographs of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in full regalia, which were displayed alongside images of Jomo Kenyatta in shackles, wild-haired and looking rather dazed and pathetic. What's even more sad is that some of the same cruel colonialists still live in Kenya today since not all the settlers moved away after independence. Pamphlets in the vernacular, pointing out how misguided was the detainees` belief that African land had been stolen by the British, were circulated throughout the compound. She has shown how, even when they profess the most altruistic of intentions, empires can still be brutal in their response to dissent by subject peoples. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? Inevitably news of incidents leaked out, igniting parliamentary rows in London, which Elkins chronicles with contained fury. A great book, but why not use the word genocide? The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800-1910, The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam, The Imperial History Wars: Debating the British Empire, Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, A Grain of Wheat (Penguin African Writers Series Book 2). Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World, Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History (Graphic History Series), It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower, Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867, A Grain of Wheat (Penguin African Writers Series), The Idea of Africa (African Systems of Thought). The book provided me with very valuable information about the history of Kenya. The book will give a climpse into the workings of the british empire in kenya and the books does a great job of telling the truth about the terriable things the british were doing to the people of kenya. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Imperial Reckoning is the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction. Please try your request again later. Elkins writes this important piece of history in a way that is only not only readable but also diligently researched given the undocumented nature of the horrific events that took place before Kenya's independence. I intend to use my meager resources to find them, expose them and hope that one day they face justice. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The catalog of cruelty Elkins uncovered--bits from surviving documents, more from interviewing survivors--makes for quite nauseating reading that descends the slope of depravity from torture to outright killing. Does this book contain inappropriate content? Nor, perhaps, the fact that the British government turned a blind eye, and later covered them up. So too are photographs of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in full regalia, which were displayed alongside images of Jomo Kenyatta in shackles, wild-haired and looking rather dazed and pathetic. Through exhaustive research in neglected colonial archives and intrepid reporting among long-forgotten Kikuyu elders in Kenya's Rift Valley, Elkins has documented not just the true scale of a huge and harrowing crime -- Britain's ruthless suppression of the Mau Mau rebellion -- but also the equally shocking concealment of that crime and the inversion of historical memory.". Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition (1 April 2010), Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 February 2016. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, This title is not currently available for purchase.


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