- Additional Authors
- American Council of Learned Societies.
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- ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org
- Description
- xiii, 354 p. : maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Africa and the diaspora : history, politics, culture
- Uniform Title
- Rwanda ancien. English
- Africa and the diaspora.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Alternative Title
- Rwanda ancien.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-311) and index.
- Reproduction (note)
- Electronic text and image data.
- Contents
- 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.
- OCLC
- (dli)HEB03164
- Author
Vansina, Jan.
- Title
Antecedents to modern Rwanda [electronic resource] : the Nyiginya Kingdom / Jan Vansina ; translated by the author.
- Imprint
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.
- Series
Africa and the diaspora : history, politics, culture
Africa and the diaspora.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-311) and index.
- Reproduction
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
- LCCN
2004007798