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'Kibra is Our Blood': The Sudanese Military Legacy in Nairobi's Kiberia Location, 1902-1968
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The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa
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"Wakamba Warriors Are Soldiers of the Queen": The Evolution of the Kamba as a Martial Race, 1890-1970
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The processes that transformed certain ethnic groups into martial races during the colonial era are explored, arguing that the designation martial race had little to with specific cultural characteristics or precolonial military traditions.
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:Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire.;Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya.
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BEING KIKUYU IN MERU: CHALLENGING THE TRIBAL GEOGRAPHY OF COLONIAL KENYA*
  • T. Parsons
  • History
    The Journal of African History
  • 1 March 2012
ABSTRACT Faced with a confusing range of fluid ethnicities when they conquered Kenya, colonial officials sought to shift conquered populations into manageable administrative units. In linking…
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The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall
In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what…
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Local Responses to the Ethnic Geography of Colonialism in the Gusii Highlands of British-Ruled Kenya
In an effort to generate labor, protect European settler interests, and rationalize administration, the Kenyan imperial regime sought to impose a new ethnic geography on the African majority that…
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Introduction to Policing in an Age of Reform
This first chapter provides an introduction to this book Policing in an Age of Reform, written by police practitioner-scholars from Europe and North America. We begin this chapter with a brief…
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The British Imperial Century, 1815-1914 : A World History Perspective
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This chapter discusses the influence of the British Empire in China and the Ottoman Empire, as well as the consequences of empire.
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KiKAR: a Swahili variety in Kenya's colonial army
Abstract The paper discusses attitudes, identity construction, agents of linguistic change, and the outcome of dense language contact in Kenya's colonial army during the early decades of the…
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