The weak and the powerful: a longue-durée and comprehensive perspective on diasporas

The essay examines the model case, the stateless Jewish diaspora, and asks why a dispersed powerful people like “the” Romans is not analyzed as diaspora. Do people, who establish institutions of rule far from their core and mythical place of origin, Rome in Italy in this case, and who impose their p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dirk Hoerder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2014-12-01
Series:Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/298