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

This book takes an entirely new approach to the evolution of cities and of societies in premodern periods. Refining the theory advanced in his earlier study of China and Japan, Gilbert Rozman examines the development of Russia over several centuries with emphasis on the period immediately preceding...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1976
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1565
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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