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Very Short introductions volume 648
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Few words are as ideologically charged as "ghetto." It was initially synonymous with two cities: Venice, where the word was first used in conjunction with the segregation of the Jews in 1516, and Rome, where the ghetto survived as a compulsory institution until the fall of the Papal States in 1870, long after it had ceased to exist elsewhere. Ghetto: The History of a Word offers a fascinating account of the changing nuances of this slippery word,...
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