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

Berman, Bruce

 
9780852550694: Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya: The Dialectic of Domination (Eastern African Studies)

Synopsis

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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Review

'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

About the Author

Bruce Berman is a professor of political studies at Queen's University, Ontario.

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