Author: Robert G. GregoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Sidney Webb and East Africa
Author: Robert G. GregorySidney Webb and East Africa
Author: Robert G. GregoryBeatrice And Sidney Webb
Author: Lisanne RadicePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349174726
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Sidney Webb and East Africa
Author: Robert G. GregoryPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781258143336
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
University Of California Publications In History, V72.
The Commonwealth of Nations
Author: W. David McIntyrePublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452907803
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
The author, a professor of history at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, presents a comprehensive survey of Commonwealth history from the time of soul-searching about the future of the British Empire, which marked the middle years of Queen Victoria’s reign, to the year when Britain decided to enter the European Community. The account is divided in three periods - 1869 to 1917, 1917 to 1941, and 1942 to 1971. Within each period a four-fold thematic divisions is followed: Dominions, Indian Empire, crown colonies, and protectorates.
Africa in Transition: Witness to Change
Author: Godfrey MwakikagilePublisher: Intercontinental Books
ISBN: 9987160085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Godfrey Mwakikagile looks at the major changes Africa has gone through since the end of colonial rule including some of the events he witnessed in his home country Tanganyika – later Tanzania – since the late 1950s, the dawn of a new era when Africa was headed towards independence. One of the fundamental changes he looks at took place in the 1990s when most countries across the continent gradually moved from authoritarian rule to democracy, although he contends that the gains made during that transitional period have not been consolidated and sustained through the years. The majority of Africans still live under one form of authoritarian rule or another including outright dictatorship.
Race and empire
Author: Chloe CampbellPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847796311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Race and empire tells the story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century. The Kenyan eugenics movement of the 1930s adapted British ideas to the colonial environment: in all its extremity, Kenyan eugenics was not simply a bizarre and embarrassing colonial mutation, as it was later dismissed, but a logical extension of British eugenics in a colonial context. By tracing the history of eugenic thought in Kenya, the book shows how the movement took on a distinctive colonial character, driven by settler political preoccupations and reacting to increasingly outspoken African demands for better, and more independent, education. Through a close examination of attitudes towards race and intelligence in a British colony, Race and empire reveals how eugenics was central to colonial racial theories before World War Two.
Unpublished Research on Africa, Completed and in Progress
Author: United States Department of State. External Research DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Beginning in 1954, Apr. issue lists studies in progress, Oct. issue, completed studies.
Mandates and Empire
Author: Michael D CallahanPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1837642265
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Compares the impact of the League of Nations mandates system on British and French rule in African mandated territories.
Labor in Colonial Kenya after the Forced Labor Convention, 1930–1963
Author: Opolot OkiaPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030176088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book advances research into the government-forced labor used widely in colonial Kenya from 1930 to 1963 after the passage of the International Labor Organization’s Forced Labour Convention. While the 1930 Convention intended to mark the suppression of forced labor practices, various exemptions meant that many coercive labor practices continued in colonial territories. Focusing on East Africa and the Kenya Colony, this book shows how the colonial administration was able to exploit the exemption clause for communal labor, thus ensuring the mobilization of African labor for infrastructure development. As an exemption, communal labor was not defined as forced labor but instead justified as a continuation of traditional African and community labor practices. Despite this ideological justification, the book shows that communal labor was indeed an intensification of coercive labor practices and one that penalized Africans for non-compliance with fines or imprisonment. The use of forced labor before and after the passage of the Convention is examined, with a focus on its use during World War II as well as in efforts to combat soil erosion in the rural African reserve areas in Kenya. The exploitation of female labor, the Mau Mau war of the 1950s, civilian protests, and the regeneration of communal labor as harambee after independence are also discussed.