The dispersion : a history of the word diaspora

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The dispersion : a history of the word diaspora

Title remainder

a history of the word diaspora

Statement of responsibility

by Stephane Dufoix

Creator

• Dufoix, Stéphane

Subject

• Diaspora (The French word)
• Emigration and immigration -- History

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng

Summary

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. --

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• Dispersion

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DLC

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Brill's specials in modern history

Series volume

Volume 1