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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In this groundbreaking book Harvard historian Caroline Elkins has recovered the lost history of the last days of British colonialism in Kenya. In the aftermath of World War II and the triumph of liberal democracy over fascism the British detained and brutal- ized hundreds of thousands of Kikuyu-the colony’s largest ethnic group-who had demanded their independence. In a compelling narrative that draws upon nearly a decade of painstaking research-including hundreds of interviews with Kikuyu deten- tion camp survivors and their captors-Elkins reveals for the first time the complete story of the bloodiest period in the struggle for Kenyan independence. Imperial Reckoning is history of the highest order: meticulously researched bril- liantly written and powerfully dramatic. A remarkable act of historical re-creation it is also a disturbing reminder of the brutal imperial precedents that continue to inform Western nations in their drive to democratize the world. (LL)