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The great lakes of Africa : two thousand years of history / Jean-Pierre Chrétien ; translated by Scott Straus.
Van Pelt Library DT365.5 .C4613 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chrétien, Jean-Pierre.
- Standardized Title:
- Afrique des Grands lacs. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Africa, Eastern--History.
- Africa, Eastern.
- Eastern Africa.
- History.
- Africa, Central--History.
- Africa, Central.
- Central Africa.
- Rwanda--History.
- Rwanda.
- Burundi--History.
- Burundi.
- Uganda--History.
- Uganda.
- Physical Description:
- 503 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- Drawing on colonial archives, oral tradition, archeological discoveries, anthropologic and linguistic studies, and his thirty years of scholarship, Jean-Pierre Chretien offers a major synthesis of the history of the region, one still plagued by extremely violent wars.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-472) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 189095134X
- OCLC:
- 50868297
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