Priscilla M. Shilaro

A Failed Eldorado

Colonial Capitalism, Rural Industrialization, African Land Rights in Kenya, and The Kakamega Gold Rush, 1930-1952

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Produktbeschreibung

This work explores Britain's attempt to take land from the Bantu-Luyia peoples of Western Kenya for gold mining following the discovery of gold in the North Kavirondo (NK) reserve in 1931.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780761836063
• ISBN-10: 0761836063
• Artikelnr.: 21899438

Autorenporträt

Priscilla M. Shilaro is Assistant Professor of History at West Virginia University. She received her Ph.D. in History from West Virginia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Abbreviations Part 2 Maps and Tables Part 3 Preface Chapter 4
Prelude to the Gold Rush Chapter 5 The Kakamega Gold Rush, Luyia Land
Rights and the Kenya Land Commission, 1932-34 Chapter 6 Rural
Industrialization, 1931-52 Chapter 7 Politics of Land, 1931-52 Chapter 8
Rural Industrialization: The Economic Balance Sheet Chapter 9 At the
Crossroads: Social-Cultural Transformation Chapter 10 "A Failed Eldorado"
Part 11 Bibliography Part 12 Appendices

Rezensionen

An exceptionally well-researched monograph. Such data...could provide valuable insight into the complex history of colonialism in Africa in general. -- James H. Smith, University of California, Davis In this monograph Priscilla Shilaro gives us the first full account and the first critical study in depth of what until now has been a lengthy footnote in colonial Kenyan history... This book presents a vigorously pursued and very useful addendum to a social and political literature usually dominated by struggles over agricultural land. African Studies Review, September 2009 Recommended. CHOICE, December 2008