Mau Mau revisited.(Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya)(Histories of the Hanged: Britain's Dirty War and the End of the Empire)(Book Review)

New Criterion | June 1, 2005| | Copyright

All history, it has been said, is contemporary. What is remembered and how it is remembered depends on the axes that people wish to grind.

Whether or not this is always the case, it is clearly sometimes the case. For example, there has been a renewal of interest in Europe recently in the Armenian massacres, although nothing fundamentally new has been discovered about them. It is easy to divine the reason for this renewal of interest: not a sudden upsurge of sympathy for the Armenians of the past, but of anxiety about the possible accession of Turkey to the European ...

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