| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2008020806 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780195374209 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0195374207 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780199754205 (pbk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0199754209 (pbk.) |
| 022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER |
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| International Standard Serial Number |
9780199754205 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)227574034 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
967.032 Pru |
| Item number |
15 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
967.032 Pru |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Prunier, Gerard |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Africa's world war : |
| Remainder of title |
Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continental catastrophe / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Gerard Prunier |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Oxford ; |
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New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxxviii, 529 p. : |
| Other physical details |
maps ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Also published as: From genocide to continental war :the 'Congolese' conflict and the crisis of contemporary Africa. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Rwanda's mixed season of hope (July 1994-April 1995) -- From Kibeho to the attack on Zaire (April 1995-October 1996) -- The Congo basin, its interlopers, and its onlookers -- Winning a virtual war (September 1996-May 1997) -- Losing the real peace (May 1997-August 1998) -- A continental war (August 1998-August 1999) -- Sinking into the quagmire (August 1999-January) -- Not with a bang, but with a whimper: the war's confused ending (January 2001-December 2002) -- From war to peace: Congolese transition and conflict deconstruction (January 2003-July 2007) -- Groping for meaning: the "Congolese" conflict and the crisis of contemporary Africa -- Appendix 1. Seth Sendashonga's murder. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
From the Publisher: The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, when some two million refugees--a third of Rwanda's population--fled to exile in Zaire in 1996. The new Rwandan regime then crossed into Zaire and attacked the refugees, slaughtering upwards of 400,000 people. The Rwandan forces then turned on Zaire's despotic President Mobutu and, with the help of a number of allied African countries, overthrew him. But as Prunier shows, the collapse of the Mobutu regime and the ascension of the corrupt and erratic Laurent-Desire Kabila created a power vacuum that drew Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and other African nations into an extended and chaotic war. The heart of the book documents how the whole core of the African continent became engulfed in an intractable and bloody conflict after 1998, a devastating war that only wound down following the assassination of Kabila in 2001. Prunier not only captures all this in his riveting narrative, but he also indicts the international community for its utter lack of interest in what was then the largest conflict in the world. Here then is a gripping eyewitness account of the bloodiest upheaval of recent times, a book of passionate and unblinking intensity that is our best record to date of one of the great tragedies of the post-Cold War era. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Information code or alphabet |
100933 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Genocide |
| Geographic subdivision |
Rwanda |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Political violence |
| Geographic subdivision |
Great Lakes Region (Africa) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Geopolitics |
| Geographic subdivision |
Africa, Central |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Ethnic relations |
| General subdivision |
Political aspects |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Refugees |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Congo (Democratic Republic) |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
1997- |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Rwanda |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
Civil War, 1994 |
| General subdivision |
Refugees |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Africa, Central |
| General subdivision |
Ethnic relations |
| -- |
Political aspects |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
900 - 999 |
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