Imperial Reckoning

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya is a 2005 non-fiction book written by Caroline Elkins and published by Henry Holt. It won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.[1]

Imperial Reckoning
AuthorCaroline Elkins
PublisherHenry Holt
Publication date
2005
ISBN0-8050-8001-5

The book describes how, after Operation Anvil, the British colonial government in Kenya turned increasingly to mass detention as a means to suppress the Mau Mau Uprising. Elkins details the establishment and running of the detention camps, the torture and abuse that took place there, and the attempts by the British to destroy records on the eve of Kenya's independence, after having covered up such incidents as the Hola massacre.[2]

Bibliography

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, Henry Holt/Jonathan Cape, 2005, ISBN 0-8050-8001-5

References
  1. "Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction". pulitzer.org. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
  2. Jackson, Kennel (2006). "Review". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 39 (1): 158–160. Retrieved 28 September 2021.


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