Historical Dictionary of Rwanda - Hardcover

Dorsey, Learthen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810828200 ISBN 13: 9780810828209

Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1994

Synopsis

An extensive survey of political, social, and economic events in Rwanda from antiquity to the present.

About this title

About the Author

Learthen Dorsey (BS, Pennsylvania State University; MA, PhD, Michigan State University), Assistant Professor of History, University of Nebraska/Lincoln, has also taught at Clemson University and served as Director of the Sahel Documentation Center at Michigan State University, East Lansing. Professor Dorsey conducted archival and field research in Belgium and Rwanda.

From Library Journal

Much of this book stems from research done by the author (history, Univ. of Nebraska) for his thesis on Rwanda (1983). Like the other volumes in this series, it is prefaced by a handy table of abbreviations as well as a useful chronology and a good, readable historical overview (both ending about March 1993, shortly before the current crisis began). A brief bibliography is appended at the end. The dictionary section includes terms in French and Kinyarwanda, with a host of historical and government terms, biographical entries, and general words and phrases that should prove helpful to a broad audience, especially reference librarians and students. An index and greater cross-referencing would have made this a more useful tool. Although Rwanda is a small country, given its unfortunate prominence in world affairs lately, this book may prove quite valuable to a wide variety of collections.
Paul H. Thomas, Hoover Inst. Lib., Stanford, Cal.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0810828200
• ISBN 13: 9780810828209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 458