Caroline Elkins

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century. A NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, HISTORY TODAY AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR Masterly... This book is dynamite - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the Mind Winner of the NYU/Axinn Foundation...

Britain's Gulag is the twentieth anniversary edition of Caroline Elkins's Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé, now with a new introduction. After decades of British rule in Kenya, 1952 saw the start of the Mau Mau uprising—a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly...