Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya: The Dialectic of Domination

by Bruce J. Berman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821409948
• ISBN13: 9780821409947
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"