Robert Maxon
Professor
202B Woodburn Hall
293-2421 x5223
Robert.Maxon@mail.wvu.edu
Ph.D. Syracuse University
Teaching Fields: African History, East African History, World History.
Research: Modern East Africa; colonial Kenya; economic history of Kenya; rural agrarian change in Kenya; colonial history of the Gusii of western Kenya.
Selected Publications:
Conflict and Accommodation in Western Kenya: the Gusii and the British, 1907-1963 (1989).
Co-editor with W.R. Ochieng', An Economic History of Kenya (1992).
Struggle for Kenya: the Loss and Reassertion of Imperial Initiative, 1912-1923 (1993).
East Africa: An Introductory History 2nd Edition (1994).
"Up in Smoke: Peasants, Capital and the Colonial State in the Tobacco Industry in Western Kenya, 1930-1939," African Economic History 22 (1994): 111-39.
Historical Dictionary of Kenya Second Edition, co-authored with Thomas Ofcansky (2000).
Connections to other Web sites: Regional Research Institute: www.rri.wvu.edu/vita/maxon.htm
