Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority, and Narration

by John Lonsdale

Book Overview

Fifty years after the declaration of the state of emergency, Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself. Mau Mau and Nationhood is a collection of essays providing the most recent thinking on the uprising and its aftermath.

The work of well-established scholars as well as of young researchers with fresh perspectives, Mau Mau and Nationhood achieves a multilayered analysis of a subject of enduring...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821414836
• ISBN13: 9780821414835
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.1" x 8.7"