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" Antecedents to modern Rwanda : "
Jan Vansina ; translated by the author.
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BL
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1041916
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b796286
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| Uniform Title
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Rwanda ancien.English
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| Main Entry
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Vansina, Jan.
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Antecedents to modern Rwanda : : the Nyiginya Kingdom /\ Jan Vansina ; translated by the author.
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| Publication Statement
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Madison, Wis. :: University of Wisconsin Press,, ©2004.
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| Series Statement
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Africa and the diaspora
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1 online resource (xiii, 354 pages) :: maps
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| ISBN
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0299201236
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: 1282269534
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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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-311) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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HISTORY.
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Kings and rulers.
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Etnische betrekkingen.
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Rwanda, History.
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Rwanda, Kings and rulers.
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Rwanda.
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| Dewey Classification
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967.571/01
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DT450.34.V3813 2004eb
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15.80bcl
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