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Author:
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Branch, Daniel, 1978-
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Title:
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Defeating Mau Mau, creating Kenya : counterinsurgency, civil war, and decolonization / Daniel Branch.
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Imprint:
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Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Physical Description:
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xx, 250 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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Series:
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(African studies ; 111)
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Note:
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:
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Introduction : understanding loyalism in Kenya's civil war -- Vomiting the oath : the origins of loyalism in the growth of Mau Mau -- Terror and counter-terror : March 1953-April 1954 -- From Mau Mau to home guard : the defeat of the insurgency -- Loyalism, land, and labour : the path to self-mastery -- Loyalism in the age of decolonisation -- Eating the fruits of uhuru : loyalists, Mau Mau, and the post-colonial state -- Conclusion : loyalism, decolonisation, and civil war.
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Subject (LC):
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Mau Mau--History--20th century.
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Subject (LC):
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Kenya--History--Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960.
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Series:
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African studies series ; 111.
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ISBN:
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9780521113823 (hardback)
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ISBN:
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0521113822 (hardback)
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ISBN:
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9780521130905 (pbk.)
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ISBN:
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0521130905 (pbk.)
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DT433.577 .B73 2009
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