Robert M Maxon
Biographic Data
| ID | 172513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert M Maxon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert M |
| FAMILY NAME | Maxon |
| SIGNATURE | MAXON R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Virginia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4802-1436 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Disservice to the Public? The Public Service Commission in Early Independent Kenya
The need to create an efficient, nonpartisan public service that would reflect the population of African colonies approaching independence rather than the colonial rulers and meet the needs and aspirations of those people was one of several critical issues to emerge in the late 1950s. The article focuses on the issue in Kenya. The decolonization process created a need for change in the composition of the public service brought forth competing vie…
Decolonization Histories
Decolonization was a process that characterized several decades in the second half of the twentieth century. The lengthy time period and varied contexts that marked the change from colonial territories to nation-states as well as differing paths followed means that one narrative does not fit the experience of all. Thus, this account of decolonization pays attention to the varied forces and factors, paths and actors, timing, and the experiences of…
The Demise and Rise of Majimbo in Independent Kenya
The demise and rise of federalism as a governing system in independent Kenya, normally referred to by the Swahili word majimbo (literally provinces/states), remains a scarcely studied and understood subject in that nation's first fifty years of independence. This is surprising as the histories of independent Kenya published during the current decade identify issues of federalism and centralism as being fundamental to political discourse and conte…
Kenya Between Hope and Despair, 1963–2012
Alcohol in Africa
Going Their Separate Ways
Empire State-Building
Where Did the Trees Go? The Wattle Bark Industry in Western Kenya, 1932-1950
Introduite comme culture commerciale dans les Hautes-Terres gusii, au debut des annees 1930 - avec le soutien de l'Etat colonial du Kenya et la participation active des communautes paysannes -, l'arboriculture, dans l'ouest du Kenya, fut largement un echec. L'etude de cette initiative manquee met en lumiere des aspects importants de l'histoire du developpement agricole en Afrique rurale. Elle montre que malgre la receptivite des paysans aux force…
Fantastic Prices" in the Midst of "An Acute Food Shortage
The Boers in East Africa
Struggle for Kenya
Struggle for Kenya
Up in Smoke
Struggle for Kenya
South Asians in East Africa
The Devonshire Declaration
It has long been accepted that the Devonshire Declaration of 1923 represented a clever compromise by which the British government was able to extricate itself from a longstanding controversy surrounding Indian claims for equality with European settlers in Kenya through a statement that African interests were to be paramount in that colony. There can be no denying that the doctrine of African paramountcy proved an effective solution to the Colonia…
Fighting Two Sides
Conflict and Accommodation in Western Kenya
The Gusii people of Kenya, Africa, were the last major Kenyan ethnic group to be conquered by the British. This is an account of their experience under colonial control and a portrayal of their strong and steadfast resistance. Illustrated with maps and tables
The Kenya currency Crisis, 1919–21 and the imperial dilemma
(1989). The Kenya currency Crisis, 1919–21 and the imperial dilemma. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 323-348
Peasants against the State
Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905-63
The author follows the story of the squatters farming the land in the 'White Highlands' at first unused by the Europeans. After 1923 the white settlers demanded more labour from the squatters and began to restrict their use of the land for cultivation and animal husbandry until by the early 1940s most of the squatters livestock had gone. Kanogo traces the squatters' increasing poverty and disillusion and their involvement in Mau Mau, particularly…
Law, State and the Working Class in Tanzania
Full text can be accessed at the following link http://www.jstor.org/stable/3601765?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
The Thorny Road From Primary to Secondary Source
For almost two decades, the cult of Mumbo or Mumboism has attracted the attention of historians and other social scientists interested in the colonial history of western Kenya. This has led to its recognition as an important protest response to colonial rule among the Gusii and Luo from the period just prior to World War I through the 1930s. Its importance has been magnified by ascribing to it responsibility for the looting of Kisii town, the adm…
A Kenya Petite Bourgeoisie Enters Local Politics
An economic history of Kenya
Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905-63
The author follows the story of the squatters farming the land in the 'White Highlands' at first unused by the Europeans. After 1923 the white settlers demanded more labour from the squatters and began to restrict their use of the land for cultivation and animal husbandry until by the early 1940s most of the squatters livestock had gone. Kanogo traces the squatters' increasing poverty and disillusion and their involvement in Mau Mau, particularly…
South Asians in East Africa
Alcohol in Africa
The Kenya currency Crisis, 1919–21 and the imperial dilemma
(1989). The Kenya currency Crisis, 1919–21 and the imperial dilemma. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 323-348
Fighting Two Sides
Conflict and Accommodation in Western Kenya
The Gusii people of Kenya, Africa, were the last major Kenyan ethnic group to be conquered by the British. This is an account of their experience under colonial control and a portrayal of their strong and steadfast resistance. Illustrated with maps and tables
John Ainsworth and the Making of Kenya
Struggle for Kenya
Peasants against the State
A Kenya Petite Bourgeoisie Enters Local Politics
Going Their Separate Ways
Fantastic Prices" in the Midst of "An Acute Food Shortage
Struggle for Kenya
The Devonshire Declaration
It has long been accepted that the Devonshire Declaration of 1923 represented a clever compromise by which the British government was able to extricate itself from a longstanding controversy surrounding Indian claims for equality with European settlers in Kenya through a statement that African interests were to be paramount in that colony. There can be no denying that the doctrine of African paramountcy proved an effective solution to the Colonia…
The Kedong Massacre and the Dick Affair
On the morning of 25 November 1895 Maasai fighting men slaughtered hundreds of Kikuyu and Swahili caravan porters and askari in the Kedong Valley of Kenya (then in the Uganda Protectorate); the carnage caused one European to describe the area as the “Valley of Death.” The next day Andrew Dick, a British trader formerly with the Imperial British East Africa Company, learned of the massacre and resolved to avenge it. In a fierce counter-attack, Dic…
John Ainsworth and the Making of Kenya
African production and the support of European settlement in Kenya
The Thorny Road From Primary to Secondary Source
For almost two decades, the cult of Mumbo or Mumboism has attracted the attention of historians and other social scientists interested in the colonial history of western Kenya. This has led to its recognition as an important protest response to colonial rule among the Gusii and Luo from the period just prior to World War I through the 1930s. Its importance has been magnified by ascribing to it responsibility for the looting of Kisii town, the adm…
A Kenya Petite Bourgeoisie Enters Local Politics
Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905-63
The author follows the story of the squatters farming the land in the 'White Highlands' at first unused by the Europeans. After 1923 the white settlers demanded more labour from the squatters and began to restrict their use of the land for cultivation and animal husbandry until by the early 1940s most of the squatters livestock had gone. Kanogo traces the squatters' increasing poverty and disillusion and their involvement in Mau Mau, particularly…
Law, State and the Working Class in Tanzania
Full text can be accessed at the following link http://www.jstor.org/stable/3601765?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Peasants against the State
The Kenya currency Crisis, 1919–21 and the imperial dilemma
(1989). The Kenya currency Crisis, 1919–21 and the imperial dilemma. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 323-348
Conflict and Accommodation in Western Kenya
The Gusii people of Kenya, Africa, were the last major Kenyan ethnic group to be conquered by the British. This is an account of their experience under colonial control and a portrayal of their strong and steadfast resistance. Illustrated with maps and tables
The Devonshire Declaration
It has long been accepted that the Devonshire Declaration of 1923 represented a clever compromise by which the British government was able to extricate itself from a longstanding controversy surrounding Indian claims for equality with European settlers in Kenya through a statement that African interests were to be paramount in that colony. There can be no denying that the doctrine of African paramountcy proved an effective solution to the Colonia…
Fighting Two Sides
South Asians in East Africa
Struggle for Kenya
Up in Smoke
Struggle for Kenya
Struggle for Kenya
Fantastic Prices" in the Midst of "An Acute Food Shortage
The Boers in East Africa
Where Did the Trees Go? The Wattle Bark Industry in Western Kenya, 1932-1950
Introduite comme culture commerciale dans les Hautes-Terres gusii, au debut des annees 1930 - avec le soutien de l'Etat colonial du Kenya et la participation active des communautes paysannes -, l'arboriculture, dans l'ouest du Kenya, fut largement un echec. L'etude de cette initiative manquee met en lumiere des aspects importants de l'histoire du developpement agricole en Afrique rurale. Elle montre que malgre la receptivite des paysans aux force…
Empire State-Building
Going Their Separate Ways
Alcohol in Africa
Kenya Between Hope and Despair, 1963–2012
The Demise and Rise of Majimbo in Independent Kenya
The demise and rise of federalism as a governing system in independent Kenya, normally referred to by the Swahili word majimbo (literally provinces/states), remains a scarcely studied and understood subject in that nation's first fifty years of independence. This is surprising as the histories of independent Kenya published during the current decade identify issues of federalism and centralism as being fundamental to political discourse and conte…
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