Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya: The Dialectic of Domination (Eastern African Studies)

Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya: The Dialectic of Domination (Eastern African Studies)

by Bruce Berman (Author), Bruce Berman (Author)

Synopsis

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

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
Publisher: James Currey
Published: 27 Sep 1990

ISBN 10: 0852550693
ISBN 13: 9780852550694

Media Reviews
'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 Affairs