東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Strong to serve: The Alliance High ...

Dower, Kana.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Strong to serve: The Alliance High School of Kikuyu, Kenya.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Strong to serve: The Alliance High School of Kikuyu, Kenya./
Author:	Dower, Kana.
Description:	328 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1833.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-05A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3176259
ISBN:	0542148994

Strong to serve: The Alliance High School of Kikuyu, Kenya.
Dower, Kana.

Strong to serve: The Alliance High School of Kikuyu, Kenya. - 328 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1833.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2005.

The Alliance High School is a boys' boarding school in Kenya so prestigious that a president of the nation claimed that he could have been among its graduates. Founded by a group of Protestant missionary organizations in 1926, it was for years the only school of its kind and for decades afterward widely regarded as best.

ISBN: 0542148994Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Strong to serve: The Alliance High School of Kikuyu, Kenya.
LDR:02530nmm 2200313 4500 001 1817224
005 20060816134348.5
008 130610s2005 eng d
020 $a 0542148994
035 $a (UnM)AAI3176259
035 $a AAI3176259
040 $a UnM $c UnM
100 1 $a Dower, Kana. $3 1906585
245 1 0 $a Strong to serve: The Alliance High School of Kikuyu, Kenya.
300 $a 328 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1833.
500 $a Director: John F. M. Middleton.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2005.
520 $a The Alliance High School is a boys' boarding school in Kenya so prestigious that a president of the nation claimed that he could have been among its graduates. Founded by a group of Protestant missionary organizations in 1926, it was for years the only school of its kind and for decades afterward widely regarded as best.
520 $a Alliance students debate whether their school made or ruined Kenya. In doing so they exaggerate their alma mater's importance, but not as egregiously as people elsewhere might imagine. Alliance's publicly known history is a string of firsts, and its graduates have wielded enormous power in government, business, churches, and education. Yet they also number among Kenya's best known colonial era nationalists, as well as those more recently detained without trial, beaten by police, and driven into exile by their government.
520 $a This dissertation is an attempt to describe and to locate historically and culturally an institution that is both the unique product of extraordinary people and circumstances and a window on broader issues---of schooling and society and of enduring oppositions. In chapters on religion, language and ethnicity, and wealth, I try to connect everyday life in the school with the changing contexts, beliefs and actions that help shape it, as well as the ways we think about schools. In chapters on the origins, practices and beliefs associated with the school's prefect system, I address an important, common feature of boarding school life in former British colonies that connects in complex ways to larger systems of social and political stratification.
590 $a School code: 0265.
650 4 $a Anthropology, Cultural. $3 735016
650 4 $a History, African. $3 1017555
650 4 $a Education, History of. $3 599244
690 $a 0326
690 $a 0331
690 $a 0520
710 2 0 $a Yale University. $3 515640
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 66-05A.
790 1 0 $a Middleton, John F. M., $e advisor
790 $a 0265
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2005
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3176259