Mau Mau, "Dirty War" and the Britisdh Gulag in Kenya: Some Notes on the Changes of Perception of the Mau Mau Uprising in the Anglo-Saxon Historiography of the Early 21st century. /Elkins, Caroline, Imperial Reckoning. The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya, Owl Books, New York 2005 Anderson, David, Histories of the Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2005, Branch, Daniel, Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya. Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009
2013
Abstract
The annotation focuses on the latest research on the issue of Anglo-Saxon historiography of Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s. It focuses especially on these books: 1) Elkins, Caroline, Imperial Reckoning.
The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya, Owl Books, New York 2005, 2) Anderson, David, Histories of the Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2005, 3) Branch, Daniel, Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya. Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009