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Another Darkness, Another Dawn - A History of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (Hardcover)
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Another Darkness, Another Dawn - A History of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (Hardcover)
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Vilified and marginalized, the Romani people--widely referred to as
Gypsies, Roma, and Travelers--are seen as a people without place,
either geographically or socially, no matter where they live or
what they do. In this new chronological history of the Romani,
"Another Darkness, Another Dawn" demonstrates how their experiences
provide a way to understand mainstream society's relationship with
outsiders and immigrants.
Becky Taylor follows the Gypsies, Roma, and Travelers from their
roots in the Indian subcontinent to their travels across the
Byzantine and Ottoman Empires to Western Europe and the Americas,
exploring their persecution and enslavement at the hands of others.
Rather than seeing these peoples as separate from society and
untouched by history, she sets their experiences in the context of
broader historical changes. Their history, she reveals, is
ultimately linked to the founding of empires; the Reformation and
Counter-Reformation; numerous wars; the expansion of law, order,
and nation-states; the Enlightenment; nationalism; modernity; and
the Holocaust. Taylor also shows how the lives of the Romani today
reflect the increasing regulation of modern society. Ultimately,
she demonstrates that history is not always about progress: the
place of Gypsies remains as contested and uncertain today as it was
upon their first arrival in Western Europe in the fifteenth
century.
As much a history of Europe as of the Romani, "Another Darkness,
Another Dawn "paints a revealing portrait of a people who still
struggle to be understood.
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