A Very Different Land : Memories of Empire from the Farmlands of Kenya

Sunman, Hilary/ Hennessy, Peter (FRW)

Radcliffe Press（2014/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781780769967
• DDC分類 967.6203

Full Description

In this book, Hilary Sunman considers the day-to-day experience of her father, Owen, who served in the Colonial Agricultural Service from 1928-1950. Weaving together a human and family story, she combines her father's work with her own experience as a development economist to discuss colonial policy. Focusing on themes such as All the the 'White Highlands', race, colonial leadership, and the rise of the Mau Mau, she looks at the academic training in agricultural science offered as preparation for the colonial service as well as the attraction of Africa and the idealism felt by many young officers. Using her family as a case study, she examines the realities of life in Kenya for the wives and children of colonial officers, as well as for the officers themselves.

Contents

Foreword by Peter Hennessy
Maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Expectations and arrival
2. The beginnings: the side winds of policy
3. Off to Nairobi 1931-34
4. Western Kenya - Nyanza Province 1934-39
5. The war years
6. After the War; 1945 to 1950
7. Legacies - music, agriculture and education
8. Reflections - Children of Empire
9. Epilogue
Selected Bibliography