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Empire State-Building: War and Welfare in Kenya, 1925-1952
Contributor(s): Lewis, Joanna (Author)

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 ISBN: 0821413996     ISBN-13: 9780821413999
Publisher: Ohio University Press
OUR PRICE: $36.70  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: July 2001
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Economic History
- Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development
- History | Africa - General
Dewey: 338.967
LCCN: 2001021898
Series: Eastern African Studies (Paperback)
Physical Information: 1.19" H x 6.46" W x 8.52" L (1.13 lbs) 387 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Cultural Region - East Africa
- Cultural Region - African
 
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Publisher Description:

This history of administrative thought and practice in colonial Kenya looks at the ways in which white people tried to engineer social change.

It asks four questions:
- Why was Kenya's welfare operation so idiosyncratic and spartan compared with that of other British colonies?
- Why did a transformation from social welfare to community development produce further neglect of the very poor?
- Why was there no equivalent to the French tradition of community medicine?
- If there was a transformatory element of colonial rule that sought to address poverty, where and why did it fall down?

The answers offer revealing insight into the dynamics of rule in the late colonial period in Kenya.
 
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