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
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'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
Bruce Berman is a professor of political studies at Queen's University, Ontario.
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. 479 pp. Edgewear, corners rubbed. Light wear to covers. A study of the evolution of the colonial state in Africa, from the beginnings in the 1890's to the complex bureaucracy of the post-1945 era. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Seller Inventory # HIS1175
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