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Empire State-building: War and Welfare in Kenya, 1925-52

By Professor Joanna Lewis

The Rise of a Party-State in Kenya: From Harambee! to Nyayo!

By Jennifer A. Widner

Eroding the Commons: The Politics of Ecology in Baringo, Kenya, 1890s-1963

By David M. Anderson

Islam and Politics in Kenya

By Arye Oded

Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization

By Daniel Branch (University of Warwick)

Of Lions and Dung Beetles: A Man in the Middle of Colonial Administration in Kenya

By Terence Gavaghan

Class and Economic Change in Kenya: The Making of an African Petite Bourgeoisie, 1905-70

By Gavin Kitching

Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011

By Daniel Branch

From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labour and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925

By Frederick Cooper

A Modern History of Kenya, 1885-1980

By William R. Ochieng'

Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905-63

By Tabitha Kanogo (Royalty Account)

Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority and Narration

By E.S.Atieno Odhiambo (Author), John Lonsdale

Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya: The Dialectic of Domination

By Bruce Berman (Author)

Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda

By Justin Willis (Assistant Director, Assistant Director, British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi)

Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa

By Bruce Berman (Author), John Lonsdale

The Politics of the Independence of Kenya

By K. Kyle

Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya

By Caroline Elkins

Qut of Africa and Shadows on the Grass (englischsprachig)

By Blixen Karen, Blixen, Karen

The Happy Valley

The White Masai

By Corinne Hofmann, Peter Millar

One Day I Will Write About This Place

By Binyavanga Wainaina

The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj

By David Gilmour

Kenya: The Magic Land

By Brian Tetley, Mohamed Amin, Duncan Willetts

Karibu: Welcome to the Cooking of Kenya

By Ann Gardner

Nine Faces of Kenya

By Elspeth Huxley

Memories of Kenya: Stories of the Pioneers

By Arnold Curtis

Education, Society and Development: New Perspectives from Kenya

By David Court, Dharam P. Ghai

Salaama in Kenya

By Michael Griffin, L. Taylor

White Mischief

By Fox James

No Man's Land: An Investigative Journey Through Kenya and Tanzania

By George Monbiot