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117] and so provided a justification for segregation and, in the case of those identified as lepers, confinement at lazarets, leper colonies, or banishment to off-shore islands.
The peace this book will describe," Cohen explains eloquently in her introduction, "was forged not in back rooms and ministerial chambers but in arenas of broad public participation, in soup kitchens and makeshift local pension offices, homes for orphaned children and villas turned lazarets.
 
 
 
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