Description
| Product ID: | 9781850653721 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Rwanda Crisis |
| Subtitle: | History of a Genocide |
| Authors: | Author: Gerard Prunier |
| Page Count: | 424 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, African history, History, The Holocaust, Politics and government, African history, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, The Holocaust, Politics & government, Rwanda, c 1990 to c 2000 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Offering an up-to-date historical perspective which should enable readers to fathom how the brutal massacres of 800,000 Rwandese came to pass in 1994, this volume includes a new chapter that brings the analysis up to the end of 1996. Offering an up-to-date historical perspective which should enable readers to fathom how the brutal massacres of 800,000 Rwandese came to pass in 1994, this volume includes a new chapter that brings the analysis up to the end of 1996. Gerard Prunier probes into how the genocidal events in Rwanda were part of a deadly logic - a plan that served central political and economic interests - rather than a result of primordial tribal hatreds, a notion often invoked by the media to dramatize genocide. |
| Imprint Name: | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1998-05-21 |