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Antecedents to modern Rwanda the Nyiginya Kingdom
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- ISBN: 9780299201241 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780299201203 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0299201244 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0299201201 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0299201236 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780299201234 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (xiii, 354 p.) : maps.
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electronic resource - Publisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.
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| General Note: | CatBulkString:jan.03.13 Multi-User. OldControl:muse9780299201234 Multi-User CatMonthString:jan.13 |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-311) and index. |
| Formatted Contents 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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| System Details Note: | 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 |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
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| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Kings and rulers Etnische betrekkingen HISTORY Rwanda -- Kings and rulers Rwanda -- History Rwanda |
| Genre: | History. Electronic books. Electronic books. |
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