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Author MacArthur, Julie, 1982- author.

Title Cartography and the political imagination : mapping community in colonial Kenya / Julie MacArthur
Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series New African histories
New African histories series.
Contents Mapping political communities in Africa -- The geographies of western Kenya -- Land, gold, and commissioning the "tribe" -- Ethnic patriotism in the interwar years -- Speaking Luyia: linguistic work and political imagination -- Mapping gender: moral crisis and the limits of cosmopolitan pluralism in the 1940s -- Between loyalism and dissent: ethnic geographies in the era of Mau Mau -- Mapping decolonization -- Beyond the ethnos and the nation
Summary Mapping political communities in Africa -- The geographies of western Kenya -- Land, gold, and commissioning the "tribe"--Ethnic patriotism in the interwar years -- Speaking Luyia: linguistic work and political imagination -- Mapping gender: moral crisis and the limits of cosmopolitan pluralism in the 1940s -- Between loyalism and dissent: ethnic geographies in the era of Mau Mau -- Mapping decolonization -- Beyond the ethnos and the nation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Luyia (African people) -- Kenya -- History
Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Kenya
Cartography -- Political aspects -- Kenya
Cartography -- Social aspects -- Kenya
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity -- Political aspects
Luyia (African people)
Patriotismus
Ethnizität
Kartografie
SUBJECT Kenya -- Ethnic relations -- History
Subject Kenya
Kenia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016005708
ISBN 9780821445563
0821445561