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Control and crisis in colonial Kenya: The Dialectic of Domination (Eastern African studies). This book's contents are study of evolution of the colonial state from its skeletal beginnings in the 1890's to the complex bureaucracy of the post-1945 era which managed the growing integration of the colony with international capital. These contradictions led to the political crisis of the MAU MAU emergency in 1952 and to the undermining of the colonial state. The book is based on extensive primary sources including numerous interviews with Kenyan and British participants. The analysis more from the micro-level of the relationship of the District Commissioners and the African population to the macro-level of the state and the political economy of colonialism. The author concure that this history of the politcal economy of Kenya is the first full lenght study of the development of the colonial state in Africa. He argues that the colonial state was shaped by the contradictions between maintaining effective force and ensuring the profitable articulation of metropolitan and settle capitalism with African Societies.