Histories of the Hanged

Posted on 07 September 2017 by David Anderson

In a gripping narrative that is all but impossible to put down Joseph C Miller , Histories of the Hanged exposes the long hidden colonial crimes of the British in Kenya This groundbreaking work tells how the brutal war between the colonial government and the insurrectionist Mau Mau between 1952 and 1960 dominated the final bloody decade of imperialism in East Africa Using extraordinary new evidence, David Anderson puts the colonial government on trial with eyewitness testimony from over 800 court cases and previously unseen archives His research exonerates the Kikuyu rebels hardly the terrorists they were thought to be and reveals the British to be brutal aggressors in a dirty war that involved leaders at the highest ranks of the British government This astonishing piece of scholarship portrays a teetering colonial empire in its final phase employing whatever military and propaganda methods it could to preserve an order that could no longer hold. Free Download Histories of the Hanged by David Anderson For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Very interesting to find outabout the history of Kenya than I ever knew.This is one of two books the other is Imperial Reckoning that explores the Mau Mau rebellion and the British response fully The Mau Mau may not have been nationalist heroes, but the British response was brutal Not pleasant reading, but a good corrective to any tendency to romanticize colonialism.Deeply heartbreaking and enlightening, even especially for me as a Kenyan The author was quite purposeful with presenting the Mau Mau as a complicated, fractured, brave tribalist group mainly singularly joined by the goal of repossessing stolen land I was perpetually stunned and disgusted by how uniquely British colonialism took on incredibly and increasingly ruthless and barbaric violence as well as the intricate and wholesale invisibilization of it all.The author was sometimes too fair w Deeply heartbreaking and enlightening, even especially for me as a Kenyan The author was quite purposeful with presenting the Mau Mau as a complicated, fractured, brave tribalist group mainly singularly joined by the goal of repossessing stolen land I was perpetually stunned and disgusted by how uniquely British colonialism took on incr...Highly recommended A Must for all Kenyans It is a powerful message, and a timely reminder of the brutal crimes of Empire By calling for reconciliation in the early years of his presidency, Pr Mzee Jomo Kenyatta understandably sacrificed the past for the future But today young Kenyans know next to nothing about the Mau Mau uprising and how it led to independence For them, these books are an incomparable record of what happened in, and to, their country For others, parallels with American Highly recommended A Must for all Kenyans It is a powerful message, and a timely reminder of the brutal crimes of Empire By calling for reconciliation in the early years of his presidency, Pr Mzee Jomo Kenyatta understandably sacrificed the past for the future But today young Kenyans k...While the description of the book says it s a gripping narrative, the reality is much different That doesn t mean it s not a good book it s an excellent work of history, but like many history books, it jumps around a little bit to capture all of the stories.The Mau Mau Rebellion was a dark time in Kenya s history and the response of the British seems to have been nearly as brutal Anderson s focus is on the British response, but there are wide swaths of coverage of Mau Mau atrocities Given t While the description of the book says it s a gripping narrative, the reality is much different That doesn t mean it s not a good book it s an excellent work of history, but like many history books, it jumps around a little bit to ca...Interesting topic but really poorly written It is has a strong political bias It isa recounting of events and an effort to prove the British wrong at every step I am not saying who was and who wasn t wrong, but there is no real story told in this book because the closest thing you have to a protagonist is the revolution Of perhapsinterest is that I read the book at the behest of a Kenyan whose family suffered greatly during the revolution He said it was the only book that really Interesting topic but really...A pivotal piece of research of a very unfortunate time period and of what had been an often misrepresented history From an academic perspective I appreciate the thought and thorough history this book provides, but from a reader s perspective a lot seems repetitive which is a reality of the actual history and the horrors that occurred It was important given the revisionist history to be so thorough, but at the same time it may prevent less dedicated people from learning the basics of the histo A pivotal piece of research of a very unfortunate...An admirable account of Kenya s Mau Mau Rebellion, so often pilloried in the Western press and controversial still in Kenya Anderson examines the rebellion s background, stemming from British redistribution of Kikuyu tribal lands, and focuses heavily on the methods used by the British administration to crush the rebellion He doesn t shy away from depicting Mau Mau atrocities but the military government response, including retaliatory murders raids, rigged trials and concentration camps, hardly An admirable account of Kenya s Mau Mau Rebellion, so often pilloried in the Western press and controversial still in Kenya Anderson examines the rebellion s background, stemming from British redistribution of Kikuyu tribal lands, and focuses heavily on the methods used by the British administration to crush the rebellion He doesn t shy away fr...Anderson just wrote this NYT op ed re Brits recently admitting to torture in Kenya and agreeing to some reparations, however small Led me to look up his book The horror, the horror Imagine the tea cups shattering throughout House of Lords not that we Yanks have any reason to be smug on this matter.Fascinating, generally well written history of the 1950 s Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya It is a pretty balanced account in a pox on all your houses sort of way It provides proof, yet again, that war is hell a...

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07 September 2017

David Anderson