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Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
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Product Description "A remarkable account of Britain's last stand in Kenya. This is imperial history at its very best."--John Hope Franklin In "a gripping narrative that is all but impossible to put down" (Joseph C. Miller), Histories of the Hanged exposes the long-hidden colonial crimes of the British in Kenya. This groundbreaking work tells how the brutal war between the colonial government and the insurrectionist Mau Mau between 1952 and 1960 dominated the final bloody decade of imperialism in East Africa. Using extraordinary new evidence, David Anderson puts the colonial government on trial with eyewitness testimony from over 800 court cases and previously unseen archives. His research exonerates the Kikuyu rebels; hardly the terrorists they were thought to be; and reveals the British to be brutal aggressors in a "dirty war" that involved leaders at the highest ranks of the British government. This astonishing piece of scholarship portrays a teetering colonial empire in its final phase; employing whatever military and propaganda methods it could to preserve an order that could no longer hold. 18 photographs, 2 maps Review A brilliantly-written and powerfully-argued portrayal of the political use of the death penalty to crush rebellion. -- Richard J. Evans, author of Rituals of Retribution Essential reading, not only for everyone interested in decolonisation, but also for people appalled by human rights abuses today -- Joanna Bourke, author of An Intimate History of Killing Scholarly yet fascinating, unsettling in its revisionism yet readable in its macabre narrative. -- Simon Sebag-Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Star Will transform our understanding of how the British Empire ended and force a wide re-evaluation of Britain's modern history. -- Stephen Howe, Oxford University [A] gripping narrative a movingly balanced, even sympathetic, understated, and insightful narrative and analysis all-but-impossible to put down. -- Joseph C. Miller, author of the Herskovitz Prize-winning Way of Death [A] vivid account of that grim struggle .an important contribution to the history of colonial Africa. -- Thomas Pakenham, author of Scramble for Africa About the Author David Anderson, a lecturer in African studies at Oxford University, has appeared on C-SPAN and NPR. He lives in England.
