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Cartography and the political imagination : mapping community in colonial Kenya
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- Creator
- Julie MacArthur
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- English
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- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016]
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- xiii, 340 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0821445561, 9780821422106, 0821422103, 082142209X, 9780821422090, 9780821445563
- OCLC
- ocn932387009, ocn951028549
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-327) and index.
- Introduction. Mapping political communities in Africa -- Chapter 1. The geographies of western Kenya -- Chapter 2. Land, gold, and commissioning the "tribe" -- Chapter 3. Ethnic patriotism in the interwar years -- Chapter 4. Speaking Luyia: linguistic work and political imagination -- Chapter 5. Mapping gender: moral crisis and the limits of cosmopolitan pluralism in the 1940s -- Chapter 6. Between loyalism and dissent: ethnic geographies in the era of Mau Mau -- Chapter 7. Mapping decolonization -- Afterword. Beyond the ethnos and the nation