Gypsies and other itinerant groups
Subtitle: a socio-historical approach
By: Leo Lucassen, Wim Willems, Annemarie Cottaar
Contributors: Willems, Wim; Cottaar, Annemarie
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780585029511
Subjects: Romanies; History; Travelers; Ethnic relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Anthropology; Cultural; Discrimination & Race Relations; Minority Studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ethnicity as a death-trap : the history of gypsy studies  -- Wim Willems; title: The church of knowledge : representation of gypsies in encyclopaedias  -- Wim Willems and Leo Lucassen; title: Eternal vagrants? State formation, migration and travelling groups in Western Europe, 1350-1914 ;; title: 'Harmful tramps' : police professionalization and gypsies in Germany, 1700-1945  -- Leo Lucassen; title: A silent war : foreign gypsies and the Dutch government policy, 1969-89  -- Wim Willems and Leo Lucassen; title: The making of a minority : the case of Dutch travellers  -- Annemarie Cottaar; title: A blind spot : migratory and travelling groups in Western European historiography  -- Leo Lucassen; title: The clink of the hammer was heard from daybreak till dawn : gypsy occupations in Western Europe (nineteenth-twentieth centuries)  -- Leo Lucassen; title: Dutch travellers : dwellings, origins and occupations -- Annemarie Cottaar.