Imperial Reckoning
Book by Caroline Elkins
0-8050-8001-5
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, published in the UK as Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya, is a 2005 non-fiction book written by Caroline Elkins and published by Henry Holt. It won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.[1]
Overview
The book describes how, after Operation Anvil, the British colonial government in Kenya turned increasingly to mass detention as a means to suppress the Mau Mau Uprising. Elkins details the establishment and running of the detention camps, the torture and abuse that took place there, and the attempts by the British to destroy records on the eve of Kenya's independence, after having covered up such incidents as the Hola massacre.[2]
This book was also released under the title Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya, published by Jonathan Cape in 2005.[3][4][5]
Bibliography
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, Henry Holt/Jonathan Cape, 2005, ISBN 0-8050-8001-5
References
- ^ "Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction". pulitzer.org. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
- ^ Jackson, Kennel (2006). "Review". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 39 (1): 158–160. JSTOR 40034012. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
- ^ Dowden, Richard (4 February 2005). "State of shame". The Guardian.
- ^ Howe, Stephen (21 January 2005). "Britain's Gulag: the brutal end of empire in Kenya by Caroline Elkins [and] Histories of the Hanged by David Anderson". The Independent.
- ^ Brandabur, A. Clare (November 2007). "Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya". Journal of Pan African Studies. 1 (10): 152–156.
Further reading
- Cobain, Ian; Norton-Taylor, Richard (29 November 2012). "Mau Mau massacre cover-up detailed in newly-opened secret files". The Guardian.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Anderson, D.M. (2015). ″Guilty Secrets: Deceit, Denial, and the Discovery of Kenya’s ‘Migrated Archive’″. History Workshop Journal 80, 142–160.
- Parry Marc. Uncovering the brutal truth about the British empire (18 August 2016), The Guardian.
External links
- Imperial Reckoning at Open Library
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