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Author Fraser, Angus M.

Title The gypsies / Angus Fraser.

Publication Info. Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, USA : Blackwell, 1995.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.049 F86    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  940.0491 F841G    Check Shelf
Edition Second edition.
Description ix, 362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Series The Peoples of Europe
Peoples of Europe.
Contents 1. Origins -- The linguistic evidence -- Physical anthropology -- Ethnic parallels -- Lexicostatistics -- 2. Early Migrations -- Persia -- Armenia -- Social cohesion -- 3. Into the Byzantine Empire and the Balkans -- Byzantium and Greece -- Serbia, Bulgaria, Wallachia, Moldavia -- 4. The Great Trick -- Imperial safe-conducts -- New letters of protection -- Taking stock -- 5. The Turn of the Tide -- Germany, Austria, Switzerland -- France -- Spain and Portugal -- The Low Countries -- Italy -- Hungary and Transylvania -- Bohemia, Poland-Lithuania and the Ukraine -- Scotland and England -- Scandinavia -- Images and stereotypes -- European patterns -- 6. Pressure of the Gyves -- Expulsion, assimilation, extirpation -- Transportation -- Within the Ottoman Empire -- Survival of the species -- Scant glimmerings of light -- 7. Forces for Change -- New perceptions -- Musical ascendancies -- Landscapes and townscapes -- Out of bondage -- Renewed migrations -- Conservation and mutation -- 8. The Approach to Avernus -- 'Combating the Gypsy nuisance' -- The forgotten holocaust -- 9. Modern Times -- Frontier crossings -- Questions of policy -- Populations and groupings -- Turns of speech -- Tradition of change -- Pilgrims and Pentecostals -- Opre Roma!
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-341) and index.
Subject Romanies -- Europe -- History.
Europe -- Ethnic relations.
ISBN 0631196056 (acid-free paper)
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