- Description
- xxix, 277 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book explores the reasons some Rwandans risked their lives to rescue people targeted in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The volume presents stories of heroism and of the good done amidst the evil of a genocide that nearly annihilated Rwandan Tutsi and decimated those opposed to the slaughter"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Dynamics of Violence in the Gray Zone -- Agency and Morality in the Gray Zone -- Muslim Exceptionalism and Genocide -- Resistance, Rescue, and Religion -- The Border : Salvation or Snare? -- At the Margins of the State -- The Ultimate Sacrifice : Altruism, Agency, and Martyrdom in the Gray Zone.
- ISBN
- 9781501767104
- 1501767100
- 9781501767111
- 1501767119
- 9781501767135 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781501767128 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022007252
- OCLC
- YBP 2022007252
- Author
Burnet, Jennie E., author.
- Title
To save heaven and earth : rescue in the Rwandan genocide / Jennie E. Burnet.
- Publisher
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
©2023
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
1900-1999
- Other Form:
Online version: Burnet, Jennie E. To save heaven and earth Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 9781501767135 (DLC) 2022007253