The souls of white folk : white settlers in Kenya, 1900s-20s / Brett L. Shadle.

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Shadle, Brett Lindsay [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780719098291
0719098297

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

967.62/03 23

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DT433.57 .S53 2015

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Contents:

Introduction : the souls of white folk -- Race, civilization, and paternalism -- Prestige, whiteness, and the state -- Chivalry, immorality, and intimacy -- The law and the lash.

Summary: Kenya's white settlers have long captivated observers. They are alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers, hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. However, if we wish to better understand Kenya's tortured history, we must examine settlers not as caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment. This book offers a striking new interpretation of white settlement in early colonial Kenya by interrogating settlers' lives. It takes seriously - though not uncritically - what settlers said, how they viewed themselves and their world.

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Introduction : the souls of white folk -- Race, civilization, and paternalism -- Prestige, whiteness, and the state -- Chivalry, immorality, and intimacy -- The law and the lash.

Kenya's white settlers have long captivated observers. They are alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers, hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. However, if we wish to better understand Kenya's tortured history, we must examine settlers not as caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment. This book offers a striking new interpretation of white settlement in early colonial Kenya by interrogating settlers' lives. It takes seriously - though not uncritically - what settlers said, how they viewed themselves and their world.

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