| Maps | ix |
| Acknowledgements | x |
| Preface | xi |
| Glossary | xiii |
Book 1 | State & Class | |
1 | Introduction: An Encounter in Unhappy Valley | 1 |
Part I | Conquest | 11 |
2 | The Conquest State of Kenya, 1895-1905 | 13 |
| Conquest: the investment of force | 15 |
| The highlanders of Kenya | 19 |
State-building 1 | The politics of conquest | 21 |
State-building 2 | The politics of control | 31 |
| State formation: the vulgarization of power | 36 |
| Notes | 39 |
3 | The Politics of Conquest in Western Kenya, 1894-1908 | 45 |
| Notes | 72 |
Part II | Contradictions & the Development of the Colonial State | 75 |
4 | Coping with the Contradictions: The Development of the Colonial State, 1895-1914 | 77 |
| The colonial state and the articulation of modes of production in the world system | 78 |
| Our foundations in Kenya's historiography | 82 |
| Peasant production and the foundations of political control | 84 |
| Private capital, settlers and the state | 88 |
| African labour and the contradiction between estate and peasant production | 91 |
| Conclusions: the centrality of the state in the political economy of colonialism | 94 |
| Notes | 95 |
5 | Crises of Accumulation, Coercion & the Colonial State: The Development of the Labour Control System, 1919-29 | 101 |
| Introduction: explaining the form of the colonial state (1990) | 101 |
| Settler production, state coercion and African labour | 104 |
| Notes | 122 |
Part III | Capitalism & the Colonial State in Theoretical & Comparative Perspective | 127 |
6 | The Concept of 'Articulation' & the Political Economy of Colonialism | 129 |
| Notes | 138 |
7 | Structure & Process in the Bureaucratic States of Colonial Africa | 140 |
| Introduction | 140 |
| The colonial state as an agency of economic change: articulation and accumulation | 145 |
| The colonial state as an agency of political domination | 151 |
| Conclusion: centralization, development and the decline of the colonial state | 163 |
| Notes | 167 |
Part IV | Pasts and Futures | 177 |
8 | Up From Structuralism | 179 |
| Dependency theory and the temptations of structuralism | 179 |
| From systemic categories to historical processes: the colonial state as the product/determinant of contradiction and struggle | 185 |
| Beyond the limits of structuralism: culture, ideology and historical experience | 198 |
| Notes | 201 |
9 | African Pasts in Africa's Future | 203 |
| Notes | 219 |
| Index to Books One and Two (In Book One only) | |
Book 2 | Violence & Ethnicity | |
Part V | Unhappy Valley: The State, Mau Mau & the Path to Violence | 225 |
10 | Bureaucracy and Incumbent Violence: Colonial Administration and the Origins of the 'Mau Mau' Emergency | 227 |
| The Kenya Administration: discretion and rigidity | 230 |
| The administrator and African politics: protecting the 'man in the blanket' from the 'man in trousers' | 237 |
| Economic growth and the crisis of colonial administration | 242 |
| The Provincial Administration and the KAU: the escalating conflict | 248 |
| Incumbent authorities and collective violence | 252 |
| Notes | 257 |
11 | The Moral Economy of Mau Mau: The Problem | 265 |
| Purpose | 265 |
| Problem | 269 |
| Historiography | 282 |
| Notes | 303 |
12 | The Moral Economy of Mau Mau: Wealth, Poverty & Civic Virtue in Kikuyu Political Thought | 315 |
| Argument | 315 |
| Evidence | 317 |
| Imperialism and nationalism | 322 |
| Nation and tribe | 326 |
| Tribe and class | 350 |
| Religion and politics | 367 |
| Terror | 401 |
| Past, present and future | 461 |
| Notes | 468 |
| Index | i |