{"product_id":"control-crisis-in-colonial-bruce-berman-9780821409947","title":"Control \u0026 Crisis in Colonial Kenya: The Dialectic of Domination","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis history of the political economy of Kenya is the first full length study of the development of the colonial state in Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfessor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis dialectic of domination resulted in both the uneven transformation of indigenous societies and in the reconstruction of administrative control in the inter-war period.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfessor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce Berman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821409948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821409947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.53h x 5.48w x 1.19d","brand":"Bruce Berman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47202188460287,"sku":"9780821409947","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3ff40619-37a0-4d47-b600-5334278c6db4.jpg?v=1756819879","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/control-crisis-in-colonial-bruce-berman-9780821409947","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}