{"id":38286,"date":"2006-04-28T18:20:31","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T18:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=97"},"modified":"2006-04-28T18:20:31","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T18:20:31","slug":"pulitzer-prize-for-non-fiction-imperial-reckoning-the-untold-story-of-britains-gulag-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/pulitzer-prize-for-non-fiction-imperial-reckoning-the-untold-story-of-britains-gulag-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction : Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain&#8217;s Gulag in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rightbox\"><img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/7\/20060428-elkins.jpg' width='150' height='222' alt='Caroline Elkin' \/><\/div>\n<p>Caroline <\/p>\n<p>Elkin&#8217;s book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain&#8217;s Gulag in Kenya, won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction this year.  The book looks at atrocities performed by British forces in Kenya in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Elkin is an Assistant Professor of history at Harvard University.  <\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya&#8217;s largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu \u2014 some one and a half million people. <br \/>\nThe compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths was the victim of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau uprising. Caroline Elkins spent a decade in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of survivors of the camps and the British and African loyalists who detained them. <\/p>\n<p>The result is an unforgettable account of the unraveling of the British colonial empire in Kenya \u2014 a pivotal moment in twentieth-century history with chilling parallels to America&#8217;s own imperial project.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>source: https:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/0805080015<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Elkin&#8217;s book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain&#8217;s Gulag in Kenya, won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction this year. The book looks at atrocities performed by British forces in Kenya in the 1950s. Caroline Elkin is an Assistant Professor of history at Harvard University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}