LEADER 03284nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910824428003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-26953-4 010 $a9786612269530 010 $a0-299-20123-6 024 7 $a2027/heb03164 035 $a(CKB)1000000000485725 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000103996 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11113831 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000103996 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10071100 035 $a(PQKB)10430682 035 $a(OCoLC)614573769 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12171 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444760 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10223897 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL226953 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444760 035 $a(dli)HEB03164 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000006839914 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000485725 100 $a20040405d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAntecedents to modern Rwanda $ethe Nyiginya Kingdom /$fJan Vansina ; translated by the author 210 $aMadison, Wis. $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2004 215 $axiii, 354 p. $cmaps 225 1 $aAfrica and the diaspora 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-299-20124-4 311 $a0-299-20120-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 301-311) and index. 327 $aThe oral sources -- 1. Central Rwanda on the eve of the emergence of the kingdom -- The country and its inhabitants -- Fields and herds: subsistence activities -- Kinship and society -- Polities -- 2. The Rwanda of Ndori -- The foundation of the kingdom -- Subsequent military campaigns: conquest or raids? -- Government: the ritual institutions -- Instruments of government: the corporations -- The realm -- 3. Toward the centralization of power -- The seizure of the herds and the land -- The armies -- At the hub: court, king, and elites -- The recasting of royal ideology during Rejugira's reign -- The weight of the state -- 4. Government in the eighteenth century -- Government from Gisanura to Rwaka -- Government under Rujugira and Ndabarasa -- Foreign relations under Gisanura and Mazimpaka -- Foreign relations under Rujugira and Ndabarasa -- 5. Social transformations in the nineteenth century -- The transformations of society -- Hutu and Tutsi -- 6. The triumph of the great families and its consequences -- Civil war and the supremacy of the elites -- Struggles for power at Gahindiro's and Rwogera's courts -- Expansion of the kingdom eastward and international trade -- A spontaneous expansion toward Lake Kivu and the land of the volcanoes? -- 7. Nightmares: the age of Rwabugiri (1867-1897) -- Political crisis and wars from 1867-1889 -- Isolation breached and the hatching of a coup d'Etat -- The nightmare of violence used as a political tool -- A balance sheet -- History and the present. 410 0$aAfrica and the diaspora. 607 $aRwanda$xKings and rulers 607 $aRwanda$xHistory 676 $a967.571/01 700 $aVansina$b Jan$0143274 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824428003321 996 $aAntecedents to modern Rwanda$91767355 997 $aUNINA