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Caroline Elkins

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Caroline Elkins is a Professor of History at Harvard University and the recipient of numerous awards, including a Fulbright and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship. Her research for Britain's Gulag was the subject of the BBC documentary 'Kenya: White Terror', which was shown in Britain in November 2002 and was awarded the International Committee of the Red Cross prize at the Monte Carlo Festival. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Books by Caroline Elkins

Legacy of Violence

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.

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Britain's Gulag

A controversial and authoritative account of the waning days of British Empire in Kenya, and the little known destruction of thousands of Kenyans at the hands of the British.

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