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This history of the political economy of Kenya is the first full length study of the development of the colonial state in Africa.

Professor Berman argues that the colonial state was shaped by the contradictions between maintaining effective political control with limited coercive force and ensuring the profitable articulation of metropolitan and settler capitalism with African societies.

This dialectic of domination resulted in both the uneven transformation of indigenous societies and in the reconstruction of administrative control in the inter-war period.

The study traces the evolution of the colonial state from its skeletal beginnings in the 1890s to the complex bureaucracy of the post-1945 era which managed the growing integration of the colony with international capital. These contradictions led to the political crisis of the Mau Mau emergency in 1952 and to the undermining of the colonial state.

The book is based on extensive primary sources including numerous interviews with Kenyan and British participants. The analysis moves from the micro-level of the relationship of the District Commissioners and the African population to the macro-level of the state and the political economy of colonialism.

Professor Berman uses the case of Kenya to make a sophisticated contribution to the theory of the state and to the understanding of the dynamics of the development of modern African political and economic institutions.

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Title Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya: The Dialectic of Domination
Author Bruce Berman
Binding Paperback
Edition REP
Pages 496
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Ohio University Press, London, UK
Publication date 1990-01-01
Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780821409947 / 0821409948
Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
Dimensions 8.53 x 5.48 x 1.19 in (21.67 x 13.92 x 3.02 cm)
Reading level 1840
Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: African
- Cultural Region: East Africa
Category History - General History
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 89072154
Dewey Decimal Code 967.620

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Bruce Berman is a professor of political studies at Queen's University, Ontario.

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