How Long to Read Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya

How Long Does it Take to Read Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 16 minutes to read Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya by Bruce Berman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This history of the political economy of Kenya is the first full length study of the development of the colonial state in Africa. Professor 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. This dialectic of domination resulted in both the uneven transformation of indigenous societies and in the reconstruction of administrative control in the inter-war period. The 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. The 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. Professor 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.

How long is Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya?

Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya by Bruce Berman is 479 pages long, and a total of 124,061 words.

This makes it 162% the length of the average book. It also has 152% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 17 minutes to read Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya aloud.

What Reading Level is Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya?

Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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