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Antecedents to modern Rwanda : the Nyiginya Kingdom / Jan Vansina ; translated by the author.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vansina, Jan.
- Series:
- Africa and the diaspora
- Standardized Title:
- Rwanda ancien. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Kings and rulers.
- Rwanda--Kings and rulers.
- Rwanda.
- Rwanda--History.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 354 pages) : maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2004]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-311) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Antecedents to modern Rwanda.
- ISBN:
- 0299201236
- 9780299201234
- Publisher Number:
- 99944019327
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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