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1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Brill's specials in modern history ; volume 1
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Brill's specials in modern history ; volume 1.
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| Note |
Orginally published in French under title: La dispersion. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 From the Word to the Concept Introduction to Part 1 -- 1. Word of the Septuagint -- 2. Religious Space of Dispersion -- 3. Towards a Secular Concept -- pt. 2 Cham Dispersed: From the Jewish Model to the Reversal Introduction to Part 2 -- 4. Next Year in Ethiopia: Blacks at the Jewish Mirror -- 5. Name of One's Own: The Emergence of the Black/African Diaspora -- 6. Reversal -- pt. 3 Name of the Global Introduction to Part 3 -- 7. Constructing the Field of Diaspora Studies -- 8. Critical Turn -- 9. States and Their Diasporas. |
| 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."--Back cover. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Emigration and immigration -- History.
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Emigration and immigration. |
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History. |
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Diaspora (The French word)
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Diaspora (The French word) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Dispersion. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dufoix, Stéphane. Dispersion. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004326927 (DLC) 2016046349 |
| ISBN |
9789004326910 (E-book) |
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900432691X (E-book) |
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9789004326927 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004326928 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004326910 |
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