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Antecedents to modern Rwanda : the Nyiginya Kingdom /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Africa and the diaspora.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.