HSPLS site
HSPLS site
 Search 
 My Account 
 Databases 
 HI Newspaper 
 eBooks/Audiobooks 
 Learning 
 PC Reservation 
 Reading Program 
   
BasicAdvancedPowerHistory
Search:    Refine Search  
> You're searching: HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
 
Item Information
 HoldingsHoldings
  Summary
  More Content
 
 
 More by this author
 
  •  
  • Stearns, Jason K.
     
     Subjects
     
  •  
  • Political violence -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
     
  •  
  • Ethnic conflict -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
     
  •  
  • War and society -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
     
  •  
  • Genocide -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
     
  •  
  • Massacres -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
     
  •  
  • Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1997-
     
     Browse Catalog
      by author:
     
  •  
  •  Stearns, Jason K.
     
      by title:
     
  •  
  •  Dancing in the glory...
     
     
     
     MARC Display
    Dancing in the glory of monsters : the collapse of the Congo and the great war of Africa / Jason K. Stearns.
    by Stearns, Jason K.
    View full image
    New York : PublicAffairs, c2011.
    Subjects
  • Political violence -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
  •  
  • Ethnic conflict -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
  •  
  • War and society -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
  •  
  • Genocide -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
  •  
  • Massacres -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
  •  
  • Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1997-
  • ISBN: 
    9781586489298 (hardcover) :
    1586489291 (hardcover)
    Description: 
    380 p. ; 25 cm.
    Edition: 
    1st ed.
    Contents: 
    Understanding the violence -- Prewar. The legacy of genocide ; Aiding and abetting ; A country in ruins ; Six days ; Onion layers ; Mzee -- The first war. Many wars in one ; The dominoes fall ; A thousand miles through the jungle ; This is how you fight ; A wounded leopard ; The King is Dead, long live the King -- The second war. One war too many ; The rebel professor ; The rebel start-up ; Cain and Abel ; Sorcerers' apprentices ; The assassination of Mzee ; Paying for the war -- Neither war nor peace. The bearer of eggs -- The Congo, on its own terms.
    Requests: 
    0
    Summary: 
    At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. In this deeply reported book, Jason Stearns vividly tells the story of this misunderstood conflict through the experiences of those who engineered and perpetrated it. He depicts village pastors who survived massacres, the child soldier assassin of President Kabila, a female Hutu activist who relives the hunting and methodical extermination of fellow refugees, and key architects of the war that became as great a disaster as- and was a direct consequence of - the genocide in neighboring Rwanda. Through their stories, he tries to understand why such mass violence made sense, and why stability has been so elusive. Through their voices, and an astonishing wealth of knowledge and research, Stearns chronicles the political, social, and moral decay of the Congolese State. - Publisher description.
    Add to my list 
    Copy/Holding information
    LocationCollectionCall No.Status 
    Hawaii Kai Public LibraryAdult Nonfiction967.51034 StChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
    Hilo Public LibraryAdult Nonfiction967.51034 StearnsChecked InAdd Copy to MyList


    Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
     Powered by Dynix
    © 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.
    Horizon Information Portal