In Search of the True Gypsy - From Enlightenment to Final Solution (Hardcover)

The reader of European history looking for information on gypsies will only find them in footnotes. It has only been recognized tardily and with reluctance that during World War II hundreds of thousands if itinerants met the same horrendous fate as Jews and other victims of Nazism. Gypsies appear to appeal to the imagination simply as social outcasts and scapegoats or, in a flattering but no more illuminating light, as romantic outsiders. The world is patently intrigued by them, yet at the same time regards them with anxiety as undesirable aliens. Where does such ambivalence come from? What ideas are involved under the surface of these mixed feelings? In this study, contemporary notions about gypsies are traced back as far as possible to their roots, in an attempt to lay bare why stigmatization of gypsies, or rather groups labelled as such, has continued from the distant past.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	1998
First published:	1997
Authors:	Wim Willems
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	380
ISBN-13:	978-0-7146-4688-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-7146-4688-1
Barcode:	9780714646886

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