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Lecture Reading: Lecture 11

David Anderson, ‘Master and Servant in Colonial Kenya, 1895-1939’, Journal of African History, 41, 3 (2000), pp.459-85.Further reading: David Anderson, ‘Black Mischief: Crime, Protest and Resistance in Colonial Kenya’, The Historical Journal, 36, 4 (1993), pp.851-77. Karen Blixen, Out of Africa (various editions). C.J. Duder, “Men of the Officer Class’: The Participants in the 1919 Soldier Settlement Scheme in Kenya’, African Affairs, 92, 366 (1993), pp.69-87. Elspeth Huxley, Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Chatto & Windus, London: 1959). Paul Mosely, The Settler Economies: Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia 1900-1963 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 1983).

Dane Kennedy, Islands of White: Settler Society and Culture in Kenya (Duke University Press, Durham NC: 1987). Gary Wasserman, ‘European Settlers and Kenya Colony: Thoughts on a Conflicted Affair’, African Studies Review, 17, 2 (1974), pp.425-34. Gary Wasserman, The Politics of Decolonization: Kenya Europeans and the Land Issue, 1960-1965 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 1976)