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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
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Details
- Description
- xxix, 277 pages : maps; 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
- Tutsi (African people)
- Civilian relief
- Rwanda > History > Atrocities. > Civil War, 1994
- Rwanda > History > Civilian relief. > Civil War, 1994
- Rwanda > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century
- Rwanda
- Africa > Ruanda-Urundi
- 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.
- Call Number
- ReCAP 23-2988
- ISBN
- 9781501767104
- 1501767100
- LCCN
- 2022007252
- OCLC
- 1341269157
- 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
- textcartographic image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 23-2988