Colonial Transformation of Kenya : : The Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai from 1900-1939 / / Robert L. Tignor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Tignor, Robert L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1976
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1565
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (386 p.)

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- I. Introduction: The Creation of Colonial Societies in Kenya -- II. Early Contacts: Pacification and Land Losses -- III. Colonial Chiefs -- IV. Maasai Warriors -- V. Labor to 1914 -- VI. Education to 1914 -- VII. Labor in the 1920s -- VIII. Labor in the Depression -- IX. Education and the Kikuyu in the 1920s -- X. Kikuyu Nationalism -- XI. Education and the Kikuyu in the 1930s -- XII. Kamba and Maasai Education in the Interwar Period -- XIII. Kikuyu Agriculture -- XIV. The Stock-Rearing Economies of the Maasai and Kamba: Problems of Overstocking -- XV. Destocking and Kamba Nationalism -- XVI. Conclusion: Three Societies in 1939 -- Bibliography -- Index