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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Angus M Fraser |
| ISBN: | 0631159673 9780631159674 |
| OCLC Number: | 25509398 |
| Description: | ix, 359 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| 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! |
| Series Title: | Peoples of Europe. |
| Responsibility: | Angus Fraser. |
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