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"item_title" : "Antecedents to Modern Rwanda",
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Overview
To understand the genocide and other dramatic events of Rwanda's recent past, one must understand the history of the earlier realm. Jan Vansina provides a critique of the history recorded by early missionaries and court historians and provides a bottom-up view, drawing on hundreds of grassroots narratives. He describes the genesis of the Hutu and Tutsi identities, their growing social and political differences, their bitter feuds, revolts, and massacres, and the relevance of this dramatic history to the post-genocide Rwanda of today. 2001 French edition, Katharla Publishers
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- ISBN-13: 9780299201241
- ISBN-10: 0299201244
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publish Date: November 2004
- Dimensions: 8.88 x 6.04 x 0.82 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
- Page Count: 320
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