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Antecedents to modern Rwanda :

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0299201236

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1282269534

(Number (ISBN

9780299201234

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9781282269538

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0299201201

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0299201244

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9780299201203

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9780299201241

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b796286

Title Proper

Antecedents to modern Rwanda :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the Nyiginya Kingdom /

First Statement of Responsibility

Jan Vansina ; translated by the author.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Madison, Wis. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Wisconsin Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2004.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiii, 354 pages) :

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maps

Series Title

Africa and the diaspora

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-311) and index.

Text of Note

The oral sources -- 1. Central Rwanda on the eve of the emergence of the kingdom -- The country and its inhabitants -- Fields and herds: subsistence activities -- Kinship and society -- Polities -- 2. The Rwanda of Ndori -- The foundation of the kingdom -- Subsequent military campaigns: conquest or raids? -- Government: the ritual institutions -- Instruments of government: the corporations -- The realm -- 3. Toward the centralization of power -- The seizure of the herds and the land -- The armies -- At the hub: court, king, and elites -- The recasting of royal ideology during Rejugira's reign -- The weight of the state -- 4. Government in the eighteenth century -- Government from Gisanura to Rwaka -- Government under Rujugira and Ndabarasa -- Foreign relations under Gisanura and Mazimpaka -- Foreign relations under Rujugira and Ndabarasa -- 5. Social transformations in the nineteenth century -- The transformations of society -- Hutu and Tutsi -- 6. The triumph of the great families and its consequences -- Civil war and the supremacy of the elites -- Struggles for power at Gahindiro's and Rwogera's courts -- Expansion of the kingdom eastward and international trade -- A spontaneous expansion toward Lake Kivu and the land of the volcanoes? -- 7. Nightmares: the age of Rwabugiri (1867-1897) -- Political crisis and wars from 1867-1889 -- Isolation breached and the hatching of a coup d'Etat -- The nightmare of violence used as a political tool -- A balance sheet -- History and the present.

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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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MIL

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226953

Title

Antecedents to modern Rwanda.

General Material Designation

Rwanda ancien.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Etnische betrekkingen.

HISTORY.

Kings and rulers.

Rwanda, History.

Rwanda, Kings and rulers.

Rwanda.

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Vansina, Jan.

Date of Transaction

20201207091036.0

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