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To save heaven and earth : rescue in the Rwandan genocide

Title
To save heaven and earth : rescue in the Rwandan genocide / Jennie E. Burnet.
Author
Burnet, Jennie E.
Publication
  • Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
  • ©2023

Details

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
  • 1900-1999
  • Rwandan Genocide, Rwanda, 1994
  • Genocide > Rwanda > History > 20th century
  • Tutsi (African people) > Crimes against > History > Rwanda > 20th century
  • Atrocities
  • Civilian war relief
  • Ethnic relations
  • Genocide
  • Tutsi (African people) > Crimes against
  • Rwanda > History > Atrocities. > Civil War, 1994
  • Rwanda > History > Civilian relief. > Civil War, 1994
  • Rwanda > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century
  • Rwanda
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
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