Dispersion
A History of the Word <i>Diaspora</i>
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Word Count
147,250 words, Guess
Page Count
589 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139789004326927
- ISBN-109004326928
- Library of Congress Control Number2016046349
- OCLC Control Number968690188
- Better World Books9789004326927
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL38031313M
Classifications
- LCCJV6021.D8513 2017
- LCCJV6021 .D8513 2017
Description
"In The Dispersion, Stéphane Dufoix skillfully traces how the word 'diaspora', first coined in the third century BCE, has, over the past three decades, developed into a contemporary concept often considered to be ideally suited to grasping the complexities of our current world. Spanning two millennia, from the Septuagint to the emergence of Zionism, from early Christianity to the Moravians, from slavery to the defence of the Black cause, from its first scholarly uses to academic ubiquity, from the early negative connotations of the term to its contemporary apotheosis, Stéphane Dufoix explores the historical socio-semantics of a word that, perhaps paradoxically, has entered the vernacular while remaining poorly understood."--Back cover.
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