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_b.E45 2005
082 _aclass no.967.6203ELK.
100 _aElkins, Caroline
245 _aBritain's gulag :
_bthe brutal end of empire in Kenya /
260 _c2005.
_bPimlico,
_bJonathan Cape
_aLondon :
300 _axiv, 475 pages : map, portraits ; 20 cm
500 _aCaroline Elkins recounts the waning days of British Empire in Kenya, and the little known destruction of thousands of Kenyans at the hands of the British.
500 _a3 copy available on shelf no. 4
501 _aAlso published under title: Imperial reckoning : the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya. New York : Henry Holt, 2005.
505 _a1. Pax Britannica -- 2. Britain's assault on Mau Mau -- 3. Screening -- 4. Rehabilitation -- 5. The birth of Britain's gulag -- 6. The world behind the wire -- 7. The hard core -- 8. Domestic terror -- 9. Outrage, suppression, and silence -- 10. Detention exposed -- App. The operating pipeline circa January 1956.
520 _aBritain's Gulag:The Brutal End Of Empire in Kenya.It exposes the long suppressed crimes and brutalities that democratic Britain willingly perpetrated upon hundreds of thousands of Africans. From 1952 until the end of the war in 1960 tens of thousands of detainees - and possibly hundreds of thousands - died from the combined effects of exhaustion, disease, starvation and systemic
650 _aDetention of persons -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century.
650 _aKenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960.
650 _aKenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 -- Concentration camps.
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