 | Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence: The Wars of Independence in Kenya and Algeria Subjects: Human rights -- Kenya; Human rights -- Algeria; Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency 1952–1960; Algeria -- History -- Revolution 1954–1962; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa; France -- Colonies -- Africa; Based on previously inaccessible material from international archives, Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence examines the relationship between emerging human rights concepts after 1945 and repressive British and French actions against anticolonial movements in Africa. Fabian Klose teaches history at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz. Dona Geyer is an independent translator based in Germany. |
