(including Britain’s participation in the so-calledScramble for Africa) was assisted by new technologies, includingrailwaysandtelegraphy. Britain took control of large parts of Africa (includingEgypt,Sudan, andKenya), which together were home to about 30 percent of the African population. The same...
Mauritius saw over half a million laborers arrive from the Indian subcontinent to work on sugar plantations; Indo-Mauritians today make up a majority of the country’s population. Fiji, Grenada, Malaysia, Trinidad and Tobago, Kenya, and Guyana also have significant populations of Indian descent ...
"...we knew well what it is to endure physical hardship, but our poor lost nothing of their self-respect and dignity. Our great men not only divided their last kettle of food with a neighbor, but if great grief should come to them, such as the death of child or wife, they would v...
It deserves mention however that, as Joachim Reig has pointed out (in his Introduction to the Spanish translation of E. von Böhm-Bawerk's essay on Marx's theory of exploitation (1976)), it would seem that after learning of the works of Jevons and Menger [i.e. the "marginalist" rev...
This was especially the case in colonial contexts, and the experience in Kenya is par-ter, “Crime and Punishment in Post-Liberation China: The Prisoners of a Beijing Gaol in the 1950s”, China Quarterly, 149 (1997), pp. 147–159; idem,“Crime and Punishment in Early Republi-can ...
For example, Kenya exchanges tea and coffee with petroleum, chemicals and machinery from other countries. Barter trade however has the following disadvantages; It may involve bulky goods in the transaction. There may lack double coincidence. It is difficult always to get the goods one wants. Lack...
Plans to establish Jewish colonies in Madagascar, Uganda, and Kenya were all schemed by various groups both sympathetic and antisemitic to the Jews. The French and Polish governments in the interwar period even went to Madagascar in 1937 to do a survey and see if such a plan was feasible;...
A revealing picture of a time when Britain was losing its empire. It draws on letters written at the period by an airman, his vivid memories and experiences from the Canal Zone, Kenya during Mau Mau times, Cyprus and Jerusalem. His time encompassed conducting church services, being shipwrecked...
He rose to the rank of lieutenant, taking part in British actions against Somali rebels in the Shifta War and then the Mau Mau rebels in Kenya. Uganda gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1962, and Amin remained in the armed forces, rising to the position of major and being ...
revealed the true horrors of British colonial rule in Kenya and elsewhere in the world. The Hanslope documents are among those which have survived the bonfires. Cobain described how just prior to Malaya’s independence from Britain, five truckloads of sensitive documents relating to British colonial...