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Bury Me Standing : the Gypsies and Their Journey (95 Edition)
by Isabel Fonseca Publisher Comments After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become...
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The Heroic Present: Life Among the Gypsies
by Jan Yoors Publisher Comments Belgian-born Jan Yoors, who would grow up to become an acclaimed artist, photographer, and writer, ran away from home at age twelve, in 1934, to join a kumpania (band) of Roma, or Gypsies, near Antwerp. He spent several years traveling with the Roma and...
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Final Chapter Gypsies During WWII Volume 3
by Donald Kenrick Publisher Comments As the third and concluding volume of the series, this work examines the persecution of the Gypsy people in Hungary, Norway, Slovakia and Yugoslavia during World War II, together with Switzerland's policy towards refugees. It also looks at the...
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Between Past and Future: The Roma of Central and Eastern Europe
by Will Guy Publisher Comments The Roma (or gypsies) of Central and Eastern Europe have recently emerged from virtual obscurity into the glare of the international media as large numbers sought asylum in the West. This important new study by leading researchers examines the...
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We Are the Romani People (02 Edition)
by Ian Hancock Publisher Comments Written by a Romani (gypsy), this introduction to Roma life, health, food, culture, and society provides an insightful look at this despised but mysterious minority originating in India. Extensively illustrated, it looks at the people, their history...
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Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-Socialism
by Alaina Lemon Publisher Comments Since tsarist times, Roma in Russia have been portrayed as both rebellious outlaws and free-spirited songbirds--in each case, as if isolated from society. In Soviet times, Russians continued to harbor these two, only seemingly opposed, views of Gypsies...
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Fire in the Dark; Telling Gypsiness in North East England.
by Sarah Buckler Book News Annotation Buckler seeks reasons for why Gypsies and local official officials in northern England are not able to reach agreement on what seem tractable if not easy conflicts even when everyone is clearly making a sustained effort to do so. Among her...
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In the Shadow of the Swastika Volume 2
by Karola Fings Synopsis The second text in a three-volume series in the "Interface Collection", based on the latest research into the racial theories which underlay the suffering of the Gypsies in the Holocaust and their fate in the death camps in the occupied countries of...
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Roma Diplomacy
by Valeriu Nicolae And Hannah Slavik Synopsis Roma Diplomacy is an anthology of papers written or inspired by the DiploFoundation's 2005?2006 Roma Diplomacy project, aimed at facilitating the creation of Roma ?public diplomats? with the ability to bridge the gap between Roma civil society and...
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Questioning Gypsy Identity: Ethnic Narratives in Britain and America
by Brian A Belton Publisher Comments Questioning Gypsy Identity: Ethnic Narratives in Britain and America critically examines stories of Gypsy lives against the framework of social theories that illustrate how identity arises out of the cultural complexity of individual biographies...
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Princes Amongst Men: Journeys with Gypsy Musicians
by Garth Cartwright Publisher Comments Garth Cartwright fuses travel and music writing as he travels through the Balkans, heading to Gypsy settlements that are not just off the beaten track but literally off the map. On his wild journey, Cartwright wanders through the ruins of post-Communist...
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The Gypsy Debate: Can Discourse Control?
by Joanna Richardson Publisher Comments ?They are scum, and do not deserve the same human rights as my decent constituents going about their everyday lives.? So declared Andrew MacKay, MP for Bracknell, speaking of gypsies and travellers in the House of Commons in 2002. Jo Richardson explores...
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Svinia in Black and White : Slovak Roma and Their Neighbours (05 Edition)
by David Z. Scheffel Publisher Comments In May 2004 three former communist bloc countries (Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia), all possessing large Roma (Gypsy) populations, joined the European Union. Membership to the EU was conditional on each country effectively dealing with the...
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Becoming Conspicuous: Irish Travellers, Society and the State 1922-70
by Aoife Bhreatnach Publisher Comments In this first comprehensive and accessible history of Travelers in twentieth-century Ireland, Aoife Bhreatnach describes the people who traveled Irish roads, showing how and why they were distinguishable from settled people. She demonstrates that the...
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Lavengro the Scholar the Gypsy the Priest
by George Borrow
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Gypsy Fiddler
by Petulengro
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