Synopses & Reviews
David Crowe draws from previously untapped East European, Russian, and traditional sources to explore the life, history, and culture of the Gypsies, or
Roma, from their entrance into the region in the Middle Ages until the present.
Review
"David Crowe's new history, the culmination of a decades prodigious and painstaking multilingual research, is the most comprehensive and indispensable of its kind in English."
--Washington Post Book World "Crowe does a good job of bringing together a wide variety of sources..."--Choice "A valuable contribution...all future studies on the Gypsies of Eastern Europe will have to begin with this book."--
Slavic Review
"Remarkably thorough and compassionate...a basic research tool in any Romanologist's library."--The American Historical Review
"Significantly adds to the scholarly literature on minorities in Eastern Europe and affords insights and data that are not commonly known."--The Slavic and East European Journal
"Impeccably researched, extremely informative, and well written. Most importantly, Crowe's volume fills an obvious and long-standing void in the literature. Indeed, no one interested in the East European Roma should ignore it."--Ethnic and Racial Studies
Synopsis
In this fully updated edition with a new foreword by Andre Liebich, David M. Crowe provides an overview of the life, history, and culture of the Gypsies, or Roma, from their entrance into the region in the Middle Ages up until the present, drawing from previously untapped East European, Russian, and traditional sources.
Synopsis
David Crowe draws from previously untapped East European, Russian, and traditional sources to explore the life, history, and culture of the Gypsies, or Roma, from their entrance into the region in the Middle Ages until the present.
About the Author
David M. Crowe is Professor of History, Elon University, and a Fellow at the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is President Emeritus of the Association for the Study of Nationalities at Columbia University.
Table of Contents
Foreword * Preface * Introduction * Map * Bulgaria * Czechoslovakia * Hungary * Romania * Russia * Yugoslavia * Conclusion