An edition of Burundi (1994)

Burundi

ethnic conflict and genocide

1st pbk. ed.

by

  • 1 Want to read
Cover of: Burundi by René Lemarchand, René Lemarchand
Not in Library

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today
Notes
  • 1 Want to read
Notes

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Last edited by ImportBot
December 4, 2022 | History
Edit
An edition of Burundi (1994)

Burundi

ethnic conflict and genocide

1st pbk. ed.

by

  • 1 Want to read

This book offers a wide-ranging discussion of the roots and consequences of ethnic strife in Burundi. It provides the reader with an appropriate background for an understanding of Burundi's 1993 transition to multiparty democracy and the coup and violence that followed. Focusing on the 1972 and 1988 bloodbaths, the author shows how these cataclysmic events shaped the images the Hutu and Tutsi have of each other and created the basis for political myths on both sides of a socially constructed fault line.

In so doing, Lemarchand brings out a dimension of analysis that has seldom been taken into account in discussions of "ethnic cleansing" or "ethnocide." The main emphasis is on how ethnicity can be exploited to transform and mobilize the system of political discourse and ultimately invest it with the horrors and irrationality of genocidal violence.

Publish Date
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Pages
206

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Subjects

Politics and government, Violence, Ethnic relations, Genocide, Political aspects, Burundi, Africa, history

Places

Burundi

Showing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?

Edition Availability
Cover of: Burundi
Burundi: ethnic conflict and genocide
1996, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Cambridge University Press
in English - 1st pbk. ed.
  • Not in Library
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Burundi
Burundi: ethnocide as discourse and practice
1994, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Cambridge University Press
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat

Add another edition?

Book Details

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-193) and index.

Published in
[Washington, D.C.], Cambridge, New York, NY
Series
Woodrow Wilson Center series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
323.1/67572
Library of Congress
DT450.64 .L45 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxvii, 206 p. :
Number of pages
206

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL631573M
ISBN 10
0521566231, 0521451760
LCCN
96233050
Library Thing
1161522
Goodreads
877212

Source records

marc_openlibraries_phillipsacademy MARC record
marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary MARC record
Better World Books record
Promise Item

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
December 4, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
September 13, 2021 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
July 15, 2019 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
May 13, 2019 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from Scriblio MARC record