Imperial Reckoning is a non-fiction book published in by the American author and historian Caroline Elkins. Subtitled The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, the book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Elkins' focus is on the British Empire's response to the anti-Imperialist Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya during the bltadwin.ru Mau Mau were a loosely defined group . · Caroline Elkins, an assistant professor of history at Harvard University, spent a decade in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of Kikuyu men and women who survived the British camps, as well as the British and African loyalists who detained bltadwin.ru: Holt, Henry Company, Inc. · The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya By Caroline Elkins For decades Western imperialists have waged wars and destroyed local Author: Dushicage Gagami.
Office Hours: By appointment (please email to arrange) Professor Elkins's first book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General bltadwin.ru was also selected as one of the Economist's best history books for , was a New York Times editor's choice, and was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Award. Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, by Caroline Elkins (Henry Holt) Share: Twitter Facebook Email Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger presents Caroline Elkins with the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Caroline Elkins, author of Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya writes: The drive to amass African colonies at the end of the nineteenth century represented a change in.
Imperial Reckoning; The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya. Caroline Elkins; Holt, This book is still widely read in Kenya; you see it on bookstore shelves everywhere. The author, Caroline Elkins, a Harvard history graduate in , started researching the Mau Mau rebellion in , looking at colonial archives in London, but in Kenya discovered many of the records pertaining to the period of ‘The Emergency’ were missing. By Caroline Elkins For decades Western imperialists have waged wars and destroyed local populations in the name of civilization and democracy. From to , after a violent uprising by native Kenyans, the British detained and brutalized hundreds of thousands of Kikuyu--the colony's largest ethnic group--who had demanded their independence. Caroline Elkins is an assistant professor of history at Harvard University. Conversant in Swahili and some Kikuyu, she has spent nearly a decade traveling and working in rural Africa. She and her research were the subjects of a BBC documentary entitled Kenya: White Terror. Imperial Reckoning is her first book. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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