Bruce Berman


Bruce Berman is a professor of political studies at Queen's University, Ontario.


Author of…

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Unhappy Valley

Clan, Class & State In Colonial Kenya

This long-awaited book is a considerable revision in the understanding of the history of colonial Kenya and, more widely, colonialism in Africa. There is a substantial amount of new work and this is interlocked with shared areas of concern that the authors have been exploring since 1976.…


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Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya

The Dialectic of Domination

This history of the political economy of Kenya is the first full length study of the development of the colonial state in Africa.Professor Berman argues that the colonial state was shaped by the contradictions between maintaining effective political control with limited coercive force and ensuring the profitable articulation of metropolitan and settler capitalism with African societies.…

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Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa

The politics of identity and ethnicity will remain a fundamental characteristic of African modernity. For this reason, historians and anthropologists have joined political scientists in a discussion about the ways in which democracy can develop in multicultural societies.…

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