TY - BOOK AU - Branch,Daniel TI - Defeating Mau Mau, creating Kenya: counterinsurgency, civil war, and decolonization T2 - African studies SN - 9780521130905 AV - DT433.577. B73 2009 U1 - 967.62/03 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Mau Mau KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Kenya KW - Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-241) and index; Introduction : understanding loyalism in Kenya's civil war -- Vomiting the oath : the origins of loyalism in the growth of Mau Mau -- Terror and counter-terror : March 1953-April 1954 -- From Mau Mau to home guard : the defeat of the insurgency -- Loyalism, land, and labour : the path to self-mastery -- Loyalism in the age of decolonisation -- Eating the fruits of uhuru : loyalists, Mau Mau, and the post-colonial state -- Conclusion : loyalism, decolonisation, and civil war ER -