David Newbury

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David Newbury is affiliated with the following schools: Smith College, Princeton University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Stanford University

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PhD History Princeton University
Masters History Princeton University

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According to Wikipedia, David Starr Newbury is the Gwendolen Carter professor of African studies at Smith College, Massachusetts. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1979 for thesis titled Kings and clans on Ijwi Island , c. 1780-1840 under the supervision of Jan Vansina. His academic work has three major foci within East and Central Africa. The first was pre-colonial societal transformation in the Kivu Rift Valley. The second was how a Rwandan famine in the late 1920s reinforced colonial rule. The final major focus was the transformation of a hunter-gatherer society in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo into an agricultural economy. His recent work has included studies of the historical roots of Central African violence in the late 1990s to present. René Lemarchand states, "No attempt to grasp the historical context of genocide [in Rwanda] can ignore Catherine and David Newbury’s seminal contributions."

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Bringing the Peasants Back In: Agrarian Themes in the Construction and Corrosion of Statist Historiography in Rwanda (2000) (109)
Precolonial Burundi and Rwanda: Local Loyalties, Regional Royalties (2001) (77)
Understanding Genocide (1998) (63)
A Catholic mass in Kigali: contested views of the genocide and ethnicity in Rwanda. (1999) (63)
Returning Refugees: Four Historical Patterns of “Coming Home” to Rwanda (2005) (47)
Irredentist Rwanda: Ethnic and Territorial Frontiers in Central Africa (1997) (45)
African historiographies : what history for which Africa? (1988) (44)
Kings and Clans: Ijwi Island and the Lake Kivu Rift, 1780-1840 (1992) (43)
The Land beyond the Mists: Essays on Identity and Authority in Precolonial Congo and Rwanda (2009) (41)
Contradictions at the Heart of the Canon: Jan Vansina and the Debate over Oral Historiography in Africa, 1960–1985 (2007) (38)
The clans of Rwanda: an historical hypothesis (1980) (30)
Defeat Is the Only Bad News: Rwanda under Musinga, 1896–1931 (2011) (24)
The Art of Survival in East Africa: The Kerebe and Long-Distance Trade, 1800-1895 (1975) (18)
The Land beyond the Mists (2009) (17)
Canonical Conventions in Rwanda: Four Myths of Recent Historiography in Central Africa (2013) (14)
Hadith 5: Economic and Social History of East Africa (1977) (14)
Burundi Without Peasants (1990) (13)
Trick Cyclists? Recontextualizing Rwandan Dynastic Chronology (1994) (12)
Lake Kivu Regional Trade in the nineteenth Century (1980) (12)
Bushi and the Historians: Historiographical Themes in Eastern Kivu (1978) (12)
Rwanda: The Politics of Turmoil (1994) (10)
Convergent Catastrophes in Central Africa (1996) (9)
Ecology and the Politics of Genocide: Rwanda 1994 (1998) (9)
Paths toward the Past: African Historical Essays in Honor of Jan Vansina (1996) (9)
Writing Royal History: Is Dynastic History Equivalent to the History of a Kingdom? (2002) (8)
Defeat Is the Only Bad News (2011) (8)
Guest Editor's Introduction. Rwanda: Genocide and After (1995) (6)
What Role has Kingship? An Analysis of the Umuganura Ritual of Rwanda as Presented in Marcel d'Hertefelt and André Coupez, La royauté sacrée de l'ancien Rwanda (1964) (1981) (5)
The Continuing Process of Decolonization in the Congo: Fifty Years Later (2012) (5)
Alison Des Forges and Rwanda: From Engaged Scholarship to Informed Activism (2010) (4)
King and Chief: Colonial Politics on Ijwi Island (Zaire) (1982) (4)
Mode of Production Analysis and Historical Production (1985) (3)
Recent Historical Research in the Area of Lake Kivu: Rwanda and Zaire (1980) (3)
The Crisis of the Great Powers in the Great Lakes Crisis (1999) (2)
Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial African Issues (2005) (2)
Chapter 10. What Role Has Kingship? An Analysis of the Umuganura Ritual of Rwanda as presented in M. d’Hertefelt and A. Coupez, La royauté sacrée de l’ancien Rwanda (2009) (2)
Kings and clans in Ijwi Island (Zaire), c.1780-1840 (1979) (2)
Journal de la Mission de save, 1899-1905 (1990) (1)
Hero and Chief: Epic Literature from among the Banyanga (Zaire Republic) (1981) (1)
African history research trends and perspectives on the future (1987) (1)
BUNYABUNGO:: The Western Frontier in Rwanda, ca. 1750–1850 (2009) (1)
Kamo and Lubambo: dual genesis traditions on Ijwi Island (Zaire) (1979) (1)
Engaging with the Past to Engage with the Future (2004) (1)
THE CAMPAIGNS OF RWABUGIRI (2009) (1)
Womunafu's Bunafu and Cohen's Busoga (1980) (1)
RWABUGIRI AND IJWI (2009) (1)
Research Perspectives on African History: An Introduction (1987) (1)
Rwandan chronology in regional perspective. A reconsideration of the Ruganzu cycle (1993) (1)
AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF TESTIMONY Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania. By LIISA H. MALKKI. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xiv + 352. £17.25 (ISBN 0-226-50272-4). (1997) (0)
Part 2. The Lake Kivu Arena (2009) (0)
Chapter 7. King and Chief on Ijwi Island (2009) (0)
Part 4. Perceiving History through the Mists (2009) (0)
A Hill among a Thousand: Transformation and Ruptures in Rural Rwanda (review) (2007) (0)
Reviews of books: Africa (1993) (0)
Chapter 5. The Campaigns of Rwabugiri (2009) (0)
Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial African Issues (review) (2005) (0)
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Part 1. Historiography (2009) (0)
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Part 3. The Rwanda Arena (2009) (0)
A CLASSIC REVISITED L'évolution du royaume Rwanda des origins à 1900. By JAN VANSINA. Brussels: Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, 2000. Pp. 102. No price given, paperback (ISBN 90-75652-17-8). (2002) (0)
Chapter 8. The Clans of Rwanda: A Historical Hypothesis (2009) (0)
A Hill among a Thousand: Transformation and Ruptures in Rural Rwanda, Danielle de Lame (2007) (0)
Jan VansinaBeing Colonized: The Kuba Experience in Rural Congo, 1880–1960. (Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture.) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2010. Pp. xiii, 342. $26.95 (2011) (0)
William G. Moseley, ed. Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial African Issues . Guilford, Conn.: McGraw Hill/Dushkin 2004. xxi + 390 pp. Tables. Index. $24.69. Paper. (2005) (0)
Introduction: Peering through the Mists (2009) (0)
MINDING THE GAP Re-Imagining Rwanda: Conflict, Survival and Disinformation in the Late Twentieth Century. By JOHAN POTTIER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii+251. £47.50; $55 (ISBN 0-521-81366-2); £17.95; $24, paperback (ISBN 0-521-52873-9). (2004) (0)
Chapter 4. Kamo and Lubambo: Dual Genesis Traditions on Ijwi Island (2009) (0)
Clan Alterations and Political Centralization on Ijwi Island, Zaire, ca. 1780 - ca. 1840 (1982) (0)
Book Review: Four Views of the Rwandan Genocide: A Review of Reviews (2004) (0)
Chapter 2. Recent Historical Research in the Area of Lake Kivu: Rwanda and Zaire (2009) (0)
collection: Adding a DOI (2015) (0)
John C. Yoder. The Kanyok of Zaire: An Institutional and Ideological History to 1895. (African Studies Series, number 74.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1992. Pp. xv, 213. $59.95 (1993) (0)
A CENTURY OF PARADOXES (2011) (0)
Chapter 12. Precolonial Burundi and Rwanda: Local Loyalties, Regional Royalties (2009) (0)
Chapter 3. Lake Kivu Regional Trade in the Nineteenth Century (2009) (0)
REASSESSING RWANDAN HISTORY Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom. By JAN VANSINA. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; Oxford: James Currey, 2004. Pp. iii+354. $65 (ISBN 0-299-20120-1); $24.95/£15.95, paperback (ISBN 0-2990201240-4). (2006) (0)
Chapter 1. Bushi and the Historians: Historiographical Themes in Eastern Kivu (2009) (0)
The Path of a Genocide: The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire (review) (2003) (0)
Chapter 6. Rwabugiri and Ijwi (2009) (0)
Chapter 11. Trick Cyclists? Recontextualizing Rwandan Dynastic Chronology (2009) (0)
KING AND CHIEF ON IJWI ISLAND (2009) (0)
Chapter 9. Bunyabungo: The Western Frontier in Rwanda, ca. 1750-1850 (2009) (0)
Book Reviews (2007) (0)

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