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Insurgency and counterinsurgency in Kenya a social history of the Shifta Conflict, c. 1963-1968 / by Hannah Whittaker.
| Author/creator | Whittaker, Hannah |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Boston : Brill, [2015] |
| Description | vi, 176 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | African social studies series ; v. 34 African social studies series ; v. 34. ^A690914 |
| Contents | Introduction -- The Northern Frontier District of Kenya: people, place, and history -- Insurgency and counterinsurgency in borderland Kenya -- Sources and methodology -- The book -- The politics of NFD secession, 1960-63 -- The political campaign for secession -- Moderates and radicals -- Dabasso Wabera and Hajj Galm Dida -- Gaafchaama (the time of political parties) -- Conclusions -- The shifta -- The formation of the NFD LF -- Becoming shifta -- Support and opposition for shifta -- Conclusions -- The shifta conflict, 1963-68 -- The NFD liberation campaign -- "These feuds are always there": the socioeconomic dynamics of a rural rebellion -- Conflict in Marsabit -- Saifaa -- Conclusions -- Government responses to conflict (1) counterinsurgency -- The war against shifta -- The militarization of northern Kenya -- "They even called the camels shifta" -- Conclusions -- Government responses to conflict (2) villagization -- The roots of villagization -- Implementing villagization -- The villagization experience -- Conclusions -- Aftermath -- "What [is] the purpose of fighting for an empty land?'' -- "There has never been peace": continuity and change in the local political economy of violence -- "We are not people of farms" -- Conclusions. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-172) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014033817 |
| ISBN | 9789004282674 (pbk. : alk. paper) |