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1 online resource (xiii, 354 pages) : maps |
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Africa and the diaspora |
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Africa and the diaspora.
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-311) and index |
| Notes |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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HISTORY.
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Kings and rulers
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Etnische betrekkingen.
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Rwanda.
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Rwanda polity.
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history.
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traditional polities.
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15.80 history of Africa.
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Rwanda.
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History.
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Rwanda -- Kings and rulers
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Rwanda -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95000215
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Rwanda
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Rwanda -- Kings and rulers.
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Rwanda -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004007798 |
| ISBN |
9780299201234 |
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0299201236 |
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9781282269538 |
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1282269534 |
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9786612269530 |
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6612269537 |
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