Kenya’s central highlands are the elevated portions of East Africa
that European colonists entered from the beginning of the twentieth
century to make Kenya a white settlement area. This book analyzes the
colonization of the Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai who live there. Robert
Tignor focuses on changes in education, wage laboring, involvement in
the monetized market system, and anticolonial nationalism from about
1900 to 1939. Although the Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai all came under
the influence of British administrators, settlers, and missionaries,
the Kikuyu became most deeply involved in the colonial economy and
polity of Kenya, taking the lead in activities spurned by the Kamba
and Maasai. Examining the colonial records of all three peoples,
Tignor compares these responses to European colonialism and advances
our understanding of the nature of change under colonial rule.
Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
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9781400871445
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2016
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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