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It helped return suppressed colonial violence to public and scholarly debate.
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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Caroline Elkins2006 selection · Nonfiction
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
A documented history of Britain's detention system and counterinsurgency abuses during Kenya's Mau Mau uprising.
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You want revisionist histories of empire and decolonization.
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colonialismKenyadetentionhistorical memory
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