
Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya
The Dialectic of Domination
Bruce Berman(Author)
James Currey (Publisher)
Published on 27. September 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-0-85255-069-4 (ISBN)
Description
The first full length study of the development of the colonial state in Africa.
Professor Berman argues that the colonial state was shaped by the contradictions between maintaining effective political control with limited coercive force and ensuring the profitable articulation of metropolitan and settler capitalism with African societies.
North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP
Professor Berman argues that the colonial state was shaped by the contradictions between maintaining effective political control with limited coercive force and ensuring the profitable articulation of metropolitan and settler capitalism with African societies.
North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP
Reviews / Votes
'Berman's eagerly-awaited book retells and reinterprets the political history of twentieth-century Kenya in an analytically rigorous manner...he has done a great deal to make possible a fruitful discussion of the colonial state and its demise.' - Frederick Cooper in African AffairsMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
2 line illus.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
536 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85255-069-4 (9780852550694)
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