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The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years o, Chretien, Straus+=
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- 2006-09-22
- ISBN
- 9781890951351
- EAN
- 9781890951351
- Book Title
- Great Lakes of Africa : Two Thousand Years of History
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Publisher
- Zone Books
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- History, Political Science
- Topic
- Africa / Central, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Africa / East
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 27.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 504 Pages
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Though the genocide of 1994 catapulted Rwanda onto the international stage, English-language historical accounts of the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa--which encompasses Burundi, eastern Congo, Rwanda, western Tanzania, and Uganda--are scarce. 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. This translation brings the work of a leading French historian to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Chretien retraces the human settlement and the formation of kingdoms around the sources of the Nile, which were "discovered" by European explorers around 1860. He describes these kingdoms' complex social and political organization and analyzes how German, British, and Belgian colonizers not only transformed and exploited the existing power structures, but also projected their own racial categories onto them. Finally, he shows how the independent states of the postcolonial era, in particular Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda, have been trapped by their colonial and precolonial legacies, especially by the racial rewriting of the latter by the former. Today, argues Chretien, the Great Lakes of Africa is a crucial region for historical research--not only because its history is fascinating but also because the tragedies of its present are very much a function of the political manipulations of its past.
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Zone Books
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1890951358
ISBN-13
9781890951351
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Book Title
Great Lakes of Africa : Two Thousand Years of History
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Africa / Central, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Africa / East
Publication Year
2006
Genre
History, Political Science
Number of Pages
504 Pages
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Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
27.9 Oz
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Dt365.5.C4613 2006
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College Graduate Student
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Mr. Chrétien's extraordinary book undertakes the formidable task of tracing the roots of the region's violence and exposing the ideological myths on which the ancient-hatreds theory rests...a monumental study that marches through two millenniums before approaching central Africa's contemporary agony., & " Africa enthusiasts will appreciate the maps of the Great Lakes...& " -- Mary H. Meier, Boston Globe, "Chretien has undertaken the formidable task of tracing the roots of the region's violence..." - John Shattuck, The New York Times, "This comprehensive history...fills an enormous gap in the historical record with elegance and dispassionate firmness." -- "Publishers Weekly" - The Year in Books 2003, " ...anyone with an ancient interest in African affairs will benefit from this analysis." -- "Kirkus Reviews", Chretien brings three decades of scholarship and corresponding expertise to this comprehensive history..., "Chretien brings three decades of scholarship and corresponding expertise to thiscomprehensive history..." Publishers Weekly (starred review), "Chretien brings three decades of scholarship and corresponding expertise to this comprehensive history..." Publishers Weekly (starred review), Chretien brings three decades of scholarship and corresponding expertise to this comprehensive history... (starred review), Jean-Pierre Chretien has pulled together a vast amount of scholarship on this vitally important region of Africa. With this translation, English-speaking readers now have access to a sweeping panorama of history too often ignored by present-day observers and policymakers., "...anyone with an ancient interest in African affairs will benefit from thisanalysis." Kirkus Reviews, "...anyone with an ancient interest in African affairs will benefit from this analysis." Kirkus Reviews, "Chretien has undertaken the formidable task of tracing the roots of the region's violence..." John Shattuck The New York Times, "Chretien has undertaken the formidable task of tracing the roots of the region'sviolence..." John Shattuck The New York Times, "Chretien brings three decades of scholarship and corresponding expertise to this comprehensive history..." -- "Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
Copyright Date
2003
Dewey Decimal
967.6
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Dewey Edition
22
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