... a wide-ranging and masterly discussion of the colonial years in central Kenya. Both authors display an admirable erudition, Berman in concentrating on white-settler and colonial concerns and administration, Lonsdale on African responses. Lonsdale's great chapter in the second volume entitled 'The Moral Economy of Mau Mau' is an approach to understanding them that achieves a grand originality. -

• Introduction: An Encounter in Unhappy Valley. - John LonsdaleIntroduction: An Encounter in Unhappy Valley PART ONE: CONQUEST - Bruce BermanThe Conquest State of Kenya 1895-1905 - John LonsdaleThe Politics of Conquest in Western Kenya 1894-1908 PART TWO: CONTRADICTIONS & THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLONIAL STATE - John LonsdaleCoping with the Contradictions 1895-1914: The Development of the Colonial State, 1895-1914 - Bruce BermanCoping with the Contradictions 1895-1914: The Development of the Colonial State, 1895-1914 - John LonsdaleCrises of Accumulation, Coercion & the Colonial State: The Development of the Labour Control System, 1919-1929 - Bruce BermanCrises of Accumulation, Coercion & the Colonial State: The Development of the Labour Control System, 1919-1929 PART THREE: CAPITALISM & THE COLONIAL STATE IN THEORETICAL & COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE - John LonsdaleThe Concept of 'Articulation' and the Political Economy of Colonialism - Bruce BermanStructure and Process in the Bureaucratic States of Colonial Africa PART FOUR: PASTS & FUTURES - Bruce BermanUp from Structuralism - Bruce BermanAfrican Pasts in Africa's Future - John Lonsdale

... a wide-ranging and masterly discussion of the colonial years in central Kenya. Both authors display an admirable erudition, Berman in concentrating on white-settler and colonial concerns and administration, Lonsdale on African responses. Lonsdale's great chapter in the second volume entitled 'The Moral Economy of Mau Mau' is an approach to understanding them that achieves a grand originality. -

• Introduction: An Encounter in Unhappy Valley. - John LonsdaleIntroduction: An Encounter in Unhappy Valley PART ONE: CONQUEST - Bruce BermanThe Conquest State of Kenya 1895-1905 - John LonsdaleThe Politics of Conquest in Western Kenya 1894-1908 PART TWO: CONTRADICTIONS & THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLONIAL STATE - John LonsdaleCoping with the Contradictions 1895-1914: The Development of the Colonial State, 1895-1914 - Bruce BermanCoping with the Contradictions 1895-1914: The Development of the Colonial State, 1895-1914 - John LonsdaleCrises of Accumulation, Coercion & the Colonial State: The Development of the Labour Control System, 1919-1929 - Bruce BermanCrises of Accumulation, Coercion & the Colonial State: The Development of the Labour Control System, 1919-1929 PART THREE: CAPITALISM & THE COLONIAL STATE IN THEORETICAL & COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE - John LonsdaleThe Concept of 'Articulation' and the Political Economy of Colonialism - Bruce BermanStructure and Process in the Bureaucratic States of Colonial Africa PART FOUR: PASTS & FUTURES - Bruce BermanUp from Structuralism - Bruce BermanAfrican Pasts in Africa's Future - John Lonsdale