The gypsies
By: Angus Fraser.
Series: The Peoples of Europe
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Mass. USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Romanies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-339) and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins. The linguistic evidence -- Physical anthropology -- Ethnic parallels -- Lexicostatistics -- Early migrations. Persia -- Armenia -- Social cohesion -- Into the Byzantine Empire and the Balkans.  Byzantium and Greece -- Serbia, Bulgaria, Wallachia, Moldavia -- The great trick. Imperial safe-conducts -- New letters of protection -- Taking stock -- 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 -- Pressure of the gyves. Expulsion, assimilation, extirpation -- Transportation -- Within the Ottoman Empire -- Survival of the species -- Scant glimmerings of light -- Forces for change. New perceptions -- Musical ascendancies -- Landscapes and townscapes -- Out of bondage -- Renewed migrations -- Conservation and mutation -- The approach to Avernus. ‘Combating the gypsy nuisance’ -- The forgotten holocaust -- Modern times. Frontier crossings -- Questions of policy -- Populations and groupings -- Turns of speech -- Tradition of change -- Pilgrims and Pentecostals -- Opré Roma!