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Gun Violence Prevention?: The Politics Behind Policy Responses to School Shootings in the United States
by Selina E. M. KerrThis book examines the gun-related policy responses to three school shooting incidents in the United States. Gun violence prevention activists and others involved in policy making were interviewed for the book, and news media articles and policy documents were critically assessed. As a result, interpretations of the Second Amendment are shown to affect the acceptability of certain gun restrictions. News media content and policy documents, coupled with the thoughts of activists, also give an indication of why certain policy measures passed and others failed at the time of each of the case studies. This book should be of interest to social policy, politics, criminology and sociology students and academics, as well as those with a general interest in the topic.
Guns, Germs And Steel: A Short History Of Everybody For The Lst 13,000 Years (Patterns Of Life Ser.)
by Jared Diamond'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of SapiensWITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel remains a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science.
The Guns of Lattimer
by Michael NovakOn September 10, 1897, in the hamlet of Lattimer mines, Pennsylvania, an armed posse took aim and fired into a crowd of oncoming mine workers, who were marching in their corner of the coal-mining region to call their fellow miners out on strike. The marchers Poles, Slovaks, Hungarians, most of whom could not yet speak English were themselves armed only with an American flag and a timid, budding confidence in their new found rights as free men in their newly adopted country. The mine operators took another view of these rights and of the strange, alien men who claimed them. When the posse was done firing, nineteen of the demonstrators were dead and thirty-nine were seriously wounded. Some six months later a jury of their peers was to exonerate the deputies of any wrong-doing.This long-forgotten incident is here movingly retold by Michael Novak, himself the son of Slovak immigrants and one of our most gifted writers and social observers. In his hands, the so-called "Lattimer Massacre" becomes not only a powerful story in its own right (and an invaluable key to the history of the growth of the united mine Workers), but an allegory of that peculiarly American experience undergone over and over again throughout the land, and down to this very day; the experience of new immigrants, still miserable with poverty and bewilderment and suffering the trauma of culture shock, being confronted by the hostility and blind contempt of the "real" Americans.In Michael Novak's uniquely vivid account, the incident at Lattimer is seen as a tragedy brought on not so much by inhumanity as by the profound failure of majority WASP society to understand the needs and responses of "foreigners." The Guns of Lattimer is a gripping book that tells Americans, old and new, a great deal about themselves and the society they live in.
The Guns of Lattimer
by Michael NovakOn September 10, 1897, in the hamlet of Lattimer mines, Pennsylvania, an armed posse took aim and fired into a crowd of oncoming mine workers, who were marching in their corner of the coal-mining region to call their fellow miners out on strike. The marchers Poles, Slovaks, Hungarians, most of whom could not yet speak English were themselves armed only with an American flag and a timid, budding confidence in their new found rights as free men in their newly adopted country. The mine operators took another view of these rights and of the strange, alien men who claimed them. When the posse was done firing, nineteen of the demonstrators were dead and thirty-nine were seriously wounded. Some six months later a jury of their peers was to exonerate the deputies of any wrong-doing.This long-forgotten incident is here movingly retold by Michael Novak, himself the son of Slovak immigrants and one of our most gifted writers and social observers. In his hands, the so-called "Lattimer Massacre" becomes not only a powerful story in its own right (and an invaluable key to the history of the growth of the united mine Workers), but an allegory of that peculiarly American experience undergone over and over again throughout the land, and down to this very day; the experience of new immigrants, still miserable with poverty and bewilderment and suffering the trauma of culture shock, being confronted by the hostility and blind contempt of the "real" Americans.In Michael Novak's uniquely vivid account, the incident at Lattimer is seen as a tragedy brought on not so much by inhumanity as by the profound failure of majority WASP society to understand the needs and responses of "foreigners." The Guns of Lattimer is a gripping book that tells Americans, old and new, a great deal about themselves and the society they live in.
Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language
by Srinivas AravamudanGuru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original context for the past two hundred years. The book surveys a specific set of religious vocabularies from South Asia that, Aravamudan argues, launches a different kind of cosmopolitanism into global use. Using "Guru English" as a tagline for the globalizing idiom that has grown up around these religions, Aravamudan traces the diffusion and transformation of South Asian religious discourses as they shuttled between East and West through English-language use. The book demonstrates that cosmopolitanism is not just a secular Western "discourse that results from a disenchantment with religion, but something that can also be refashioned from South Asian religion when these materials are put into dialogue with contemporary social move-ments and literary texts. Aravamudan looks at "religious forms of neoclassicism, nationalism, Romanticism, postmodernism, and nuclear millenarianism, bringing together figures such as Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, and Deepak Chopra with Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Robert Oppenheimer, and Salman Rushdie. Guru English analyzes writers and gurus, literary texts and religious movements, and the political uses of religion alongside the literary expressions of religious teachers, showing the cosmopolitan interconnections between the Indian subcontinent, the British Empire, and the American New Age.
Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language
by Srinivas AravamudanGuru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original context for the past two hundred years. The book surveys a specific set of religious vocabularies from South Asia that, Aravamudan argues, launches a different kind of cosmopolitanism into global use. Using "Guru English" as a tagline for the globalizing idiom that has grown up around these religions, Aravamudan traces the diffusion and transformation of South Asian religious discourses as they shuttled between East and West through English-language use. The book demonstrates that cosmopolitanism is not just a secular Western "discourse that results from a disenchantment with religion, but something that can also be refashioned from South Asian religion when these materials are put into dialogue with contemporary social move-ments and literary texts. Aravamudan looks at "religious forms of neoclassicism, nationalism, Romanticism, postmodernism, and nuclear millenarianism, bringing together figures such as Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, and Deepak Chopra with Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Robert Oppenheimer, and Salman Rushdie. Guru English analyzes writers and gurus, literary texts and religious movements, and the political uses of religion alongside the literary expressions of religious teachers, showing the cosmopolitan interconnections between the Indian subcontinent, the British Empire, and the American New Age.
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A story of science, sex and psychoanalysis
by Seamus O'MahonyA brilliantly witty book about the intertwined lives of psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, surgeon Wilfred Trotter and the guru of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.Welsh-born psychoanalyst Ernest Jones was Sigmund Freud's closest associate and most fervent disciple. Clever, self-confident and intensely ambitious, Jones promoted psychoanalysis as a kind of secular religion. Meanwhile, his intimate friend Wilfred Trotter – a celebrated surgeon who saved the life of George V, and who took on Freud as a patient during his London exile – refused to yield to the seductions of the new Freudianism. A quintessentially English figure, Trotter was unimpressed by slick medical careerists, distrusted grand theories and lacked pomposity and self-regard.From the first psychoanalytic congress in Salzburg in 1908 to the illness of King George in the late 1920s and the meeting of Freud and Trotter in 1939, Seamus O'Mahony tells the story of these three figures and their intertwined lives with his customary wit and erudition. Not only the story of the development of psychoanalysis, this is a book about the sexual obsessions of intellectual and bohemian circles in London, Cambridge and Vienna, of Bloomsbury, of doctors in pursuit of wealth and fame. It covers a pivotal thirty years in European history, and reveals how and why the writings of a failed neurologist from Vienna became so influential.
Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination
by Sarah C. SchaeferGustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination explores the role of biblical imagery in modernity through the lens of Gustave Doré (1832-83), whose work is among the most reproduced and adapted scriptural imagery in the history of Judeo-Christianity. First published in France in late 1865, Doré's Bible illustrations received widespread critical acclaim among both religious and lay audiences, and the next several decades saw unprecedented dissemination of the images on an international scale. In 1868, the Doré Gallery opened in London, featuring monumental religious paintings that drew 2.5 million visitors over the course of a quarter-century; when the gallery's holdings travelled to the United States in 1892, exhibitions at venues like the Art Institute of Chicago drew record crowds. The United States saw the most creative appropriations of Doré's images among a plethora of media, from prayer cards and magic lantern slides to massive stained-glass windows and the spectacular epic films of Cecile B. DeMille. This book repositions biblical imagery at the center of modernity, an era that has often been defined through a process of secularization, and argues that Doré's biblical imagery negotiated the challenges of visualizing the Bible for modern audiences in both sacred and secular contexts. A set of texts whose veracity and authority were under unprecedented scrutiny in this period, the Bible was at the center of a range of historical, theological, and cultural debates. Gustave Doré is at the nexus of these narratives, as his work established the most pervasive visual language for biblical imagery in the past two and a half centuries, and constitutes the means by which the Bible has persistently been translated visually.
Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination
by Sarah C. SchaeferGustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination explores the role of biblical imagery in modernity through the lens of Gustave Doré (1832-83), whose work is among the most reproduced and adapted scriptural imagery in the history of Judeo-Christianity. First published in France in late 1865, Doré's Bible illustrations received widespread critical acclaim among both religious and lay audiences, and the next several decades saw unprecedented dissemination of the images on an international scale. In 1868, the Doré Gallery opened in London, featuring monumental religious paintings that drew 2.5 million visitors over the course of a quarter-century; when the gallery's holdings travelled to the United States in 1892, exhibitions at venues like the Art Institute of Chicago drew record crowds. The United States saw the most creative appropriations of Doré's images among a plethora of media, from prayer cards and magic lantern slides to massive stained-glass windows and the spectacular epic films of Cecile B. DeMille. This book repositions biblical imagery at the center of modernity, an era that has often been defined through a process of secularization, and argues that Doré's biblical imagery negotiated the challenges of visualizing the Bible for modern audiences in both sacred and secular contexts. A set of texts whose veracity and authority were under unprecedented scrutiny in this period, the Bible was at the center of a range of historical, theological, and cultural debates. Gustave Doré is at the nexus of these narratives, as his work established the most pervasive visual language for biblical imagery in the past two and a half centuries, and constitutes the means by which the Bible has persistently been translated visually.
Gut Feelings: Short Cuts to Better Decision Making (Playaway Adult Nonfiction Ser.)
by Gerd GigerenzerThink less – and know more. A sportsman can catch a ball without calculating its speed or distance. A group of amateurs beat the experts at playing the stock market. A man falls for the right woman even though she’s ‘wrong’ on paper. All these people succeeded by trusting their instincts – but how does it work? In Gut Feelings psychologist and behavioural expert Gerd Gigerenzer reveals the secrets of fast and effective decision-making. He explains that, in an uncertain world, sometimes we have to ignore too much information and rely on our brain’s ‘short cut’, or heuristic. By explaining how intuition works and analyzing the techniques that people use to make good decisions – whether it’s in personnel selection or heart surgery – Gigerenzer will show you why gut thinking can change your world.
Gute Arbeit Handarbeit?: Altes Handwerk, DIY und Geschlechterverhältnisse in den Medien (Kulturen der Gesellschaft #58)
by Franziska SchaafHandarbeit und altes Handwerk sind aus den deutschen Medien nicht mehr wegzudenken. TV-Dokumentationen, Porträts in Lifestyle-Zeitschriften und Youtube-Tutorials über Personen, die ihre Arbeit oder ihr Hobby lieben, sind genreübergreifend erfolgreich. Wie ist diese Faszination für altes Handwerk(en) zu erklären? Welche Rolle spielt Gender dabei? Und was sagt es über unsere Arbeitsgesellschaft aus, dass handwerkliche Tätigkeit als legitim und angesehen gilt? Franziska Schaaf geht diesen und weiteren Fragen in ihrer Diskursanalyse systematisch nach und liefert erkenntnisreiche Einsichten über den Wandel des Wertes von Arbeit - auch vor dem Hintergrund der aufstrebenden Plattformökonomie.
Gute Eltern sind bessere Mitarbeiter
by Joachim E. Lask Ralph KriechbaumIhr doppelter Gewinn des Buches: Eltern können ihre Kompetenzen in Worte fassen und bieten diese selbstbewusst auf dem Arbeitsmarkt an. Unternehmen gewinnen mit der Entdeckung des Kompetenzcenters Familie den effektivsten Bildungsort für Mitarbeiter und Führungskräfte und das mit geringem Aufwand. Wirtschaft und Eltern werden Partner! Haben auch Sie schon davon gehört, dass erfolgreiche Persönlichkeiten Ihre Fähigkeiten im Umgang mit Menschen in der eigenen Familie gelernt haben? In diesem Buch erfahren Sie, dass wissenschaftlich gesicherte Erkenntnisse dies bestätigen und dass informelles Lernen bei der Kompetenzbildung den größten Einfluss hat. Überzeugend und anschaulich verdeutlichen die Autoren, wie Arbeitgeber und Unternehmen „ihre Eltern“ dafür besonders schätzen können, dass diese sich im „Kompetenzcenter Familie“ fort- und weiterbilden, etwa in Ambiguitätstoleranz, Sozialer und Emotionaler Intelligenz, Change Management, Zielbildung, Konfliktfähigkeit oder leistungsförderndem Feedback.Halbstrukturierte Interviews mit prominenten Persönlichkeiten und erfolgreichen Führungskräften illustrieren dies beispielhaft und verständlich.Geleitworte von bekannten Persönlichkeiten wie beispielsweise von Jesper Juul geben dem Buch eine besondere Note.Durch dieses Buch werden Eltern, Personal- und Organisationsentwickler entdecken, dass der informelle Bildungsort Familie die beste Kompetenzbildung für moderne Arbeitsplätze bietet.
Gute Finanzentscheidungen: Mit der richtigen Balance von Bauch und Verstand zu klugen Lösungen (essentials)
by Georg Adlmaier-Herbst Gabriele HornigDieses essential bietet wissenschaftlich fundierte Modelle und Werkzeuge für gute Finanzentscheidungen. Ob Hauskauf, Nachfolgeregelung oder Sparpläne: Viele Finanzentscheidungen werden mit dem Verstand getroffen. Doch selbst wenn die Gründe für eine Entscheidung rational sind, stellen sich oft diffuse, ungute Gefühle und Körperreaktionen ein: ein Kloß im Hals, ein leichter Schauer über den Rücken oder ein flaues Gefühl in der Magengegend. Solche Gefühle können Menschen lange verfolgen und selbst vernünftige Entscheidungen immer wieder in Frage stellen. Die zentrale Frage lautet daher: Wie können Menschen sowohl eine vernünftige Entscheidung treffen als auch eine, bei der sie sich rundum wohl fühlen? Wie kann man Kopf und Bauch in Einklang bringen und kluge Entscheidungen treffen?
Gute Führung durch Yoga und Meditation: Mit der uralten Weisheitslehre Yoga zu mehr Führungsqualität
by Michael SchwalbachDieses Buch zeigt fundiert und praxisnah, warum sich die traditionelle Weisheitslehre Yoga als Werkzeug für gute Führung eignet und wie Führungskräfte Yoga als Instrument der Kompetenzentwicklung nutzen können - unter Einbeziehung neuester Erkenntnisse aus Neurowissenschaft und Psychologie. Der Autor bringt seine Erfahrungen als Unternehmensberater, Executive-Coach und Yogalehrer verständlich auf den Punkt. Zahlreiche hochwertige Videos zeigen, wie Yogatechniken effektiv und direkt im Führungsalltag durchgeführt werden können. Für den klugen und bewussten Umgang mit den eigenen Ressourcen und die Gestaltung gelingender Beziehungen im Arbeitsleben.
Gute Pflege im transkulturellen Vergleich: Eine Studie in der stationären Altenpflege unter Betrachtung immaterieller Werte (Forum Gesundheitsmanagement)
by Bouchra AchoumrarVor dem Hintergrund eines vielfältigen soziokulturellen Umfeldes des Gesundheits- und Pflegewesens gewinnt die Versorgungsqualität im transkulturellen Kontext kontinuierlich an Bedeutung für die professionelle Pflegepraxis und pflegewissenschaftliche Forschung. Nicht zuletzt aufgrund der sozialpolitischen und ökonomischen Vorgaben wird in den Handlungsfeldern der pflegerischen Praxis die Sicherstellung hoher Versorgungsqualität unter Berücksichtigung der Bedürfnisse sämtlicher potenzieller Anspruchsgruppen angestrebt. Zugleich kommt in Anbetracht der knappen Ressourcen in der Altenpflege sämtlichen materiellen und immateriellen Faktoren eine wichtige Relevanz für eine optimale Erreichung qualitativer sowie wirtschaftlicher Ziele zu. Das vorliegende Buch trägt zu einem vertieften Verständnis dessen bei, welche qualitativen Merkmale, Anforderungen und Handlungsweisen einer guten Pflege im transkulturellen Kontext im Setting stationärer Altenpflege seitens Pflegebedürftiger und beruflicher Akteurinnen und Akteure zugeschrieben werden. Neben der Beantwortung pflegewissenschaftlicher Fragestellungen wird unter Bezugnahme auf betriebswirtschaftliche Zusammenhänge ein Beitrag zur empirischen Fundierung und konzeptionellen Weiterentwicklung sogenannter „immaterieller Werte“ in der stationären Altenpflege geleistet.
The Gutenberg Revolution: A History of Print Culture
by Richard AbelOne of the most puzzling lapses in accounts of the rise of the West following the decline of the Roman Empire is the casual way historians have dealt with Gutenberg's invention of printing. The cultural achievements that followed the fifteenth century, when the West moved from relative backwardness to remarkable, robust cultural achievement, would have been impossible without Gutenberg's gift and its subsequent widespread adoption across most of the world.Richard Abel follows the radical cultural impact of the printing revolution from the eighth century to the Renaissance, addressing the viability of the new Christian/Classical culture. Although this culture proved too fragile to endure, those who salvaged it managed to preserve elements of the Classical substance together with the Bible and all the writings of the Church Fathers. The cultural upsurge of the Renaissance (fourteenth to seventeenth centuries), which resulted in part from Gutenberg's invention, is a major focus of this book.Abel aims to delineate how the cultural revolution was shaped by the invention of printing. He evaluates its impact on the rapid reorientation and acceleration of the cultural evolution in the West. This book provides insight into the history of the printed word, the roots of modern-day mass book production, and the promise of the electronic revolution. It is an essential work in the history of ideas.
The Gutenberg Revolution: A History of Print Culture
by Richard AbelOne of the most puzzling lapses in accounts of the rise of the West following the decline of the Roman Empire is the casual way historians have dealt with Gutenberg's invention of printing. The cultural achievements that followed the fifteenth century, when the West moved from relative backwardness to remarkable, robust cultural achievement, would have been impossible without Gutenberg's gift and its subsequent widespread adoption across most of the world.Richard Abel follows the radical cultural impact of the printing revolution from the eighth century to the Renaissance, addressing the viability of the new Christian/Classical culture. Although this culture proved too fragile to endure, those who salvaged it managed to preserve elements of the Classical substance together with the Bible and all the writings of the Church Fathers. The cultural upsurge of the Renaissance (fourteenth to seventeenth centuries), which resulted in part from Gutenberg's invention, is a major focus of this book.Abel aims to delineate how the cultural revolution was shaped by the invention of printing. He evaluates its impact on the rapid reorientation and acceleration of the cultural evolution in the West. This book provides insight into the history of the printed word, the roots of modern-day mass book production, and the promise of the electronic revolution. It is an essential work in the history of ideas.
Gutes Leben auf dem Land?: Imaginationen und Projektionen vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart (Rurale Topografien #12)
by Werner Nell Marc WeilandIn Zeiten einer global fortschreitenden Urbanisierung der Lebenswelten gewinnen Imaginationen und Projektionen eines guten Lebens auf dem Land eine neue diskursive Attraktivität. Sie verweisen auf eine lange und ambivalente Geschichte zwischen Anforderungen und Überforderungen gesellschaftlichen Wandels sowie den Ansprüchen auf ein gelingendes Leben. Angesichts umfassender Transformationen, Krisen und Katastrophen bieten die kulturellen Produktionen ländlicher Lebensverhältnisse - und damit verbunden die Vorstellungen von Natur, Idylle und Heimat - sowohl idealisierte Sehnsuchtsorte als auch konkretisierte Orientierungspunkte. Land und Ländlichkeit geraten in ein komplexes Spannungsverhältnis, das auch Auskunft gibt über Wahrnehmung und Selbstverständnis im Leben in und zwischen Stadt und Land.
'Gutes' Theater: Theaterfinanzierung und Theaterangebot in Großbritannien und Deutschland im Vergleich
by Rita Gerlach-March
Gypsies and Other Itinerant Groups: A Socio-Historical Approach
by Leo Lucassen Wim Willems Anne-Marie CottaarIn this volume the authors present an alternative approach to the history of gypsies and travelling groups in western Europe. By focusing on processes of social construction, stigmatization and categorization, they offer new insights into the development of government policies towards itinerants in general and the ethnicization of some of these groups in particular. They analyze the western images and representations of gypsies and other itinerant groups, at the same time focusing on their functions for the labour market. By doing so, they add a new chapter to the field of social history.
Gypsies and Travellers: Empowerment and inclusion in British society
by Joanna Richardson Andrew RyderThe eviction at Dale Farm in the UK in 2011 brought the conflicting issues relating to Gypsy and Traveller accommodation to the attention of the world's media. However, as the furore surrounding the eviction has died down, the very pressing issues of accommodation need, inequality of access to education, healthcare and employment, and exclusion from British (and European) society is still very much evident. This topical book examines and debates a range of themes facing Gypsies and Travellers in British society, including health, social policy, employment and education. It also looks at the dilemmas faced in representing disadvantaged minority groups in media and political discourse, theories on power, control and justice and the impact of European initiatives on inclusion. Gypsies and Travellers: Empowerment and inclusion in British society will be of interest to students, academics, policy makers, practitioners, those working in the media, police, education and health services, and of course to Gypsies and Travellers themselves.
Gypsies and Travellers in housing: The decline of nomadism
by David M. Smith Margaret GreenfieldsThis original and timely text is the first published research from the UK to address the neglected topic of the increasing (and largely enforced) settlement of Gypsies and Travellers in conventional housing. It highlights the complex and emergent tensions and dynamics inherent when policy and popular discourse combine to frame ethnic populations within a narrative of movement. The authors have extensive knowledge of the communities and experience as policy practitioners and researchers and consider the changing culture and dynamics experienced by ethnic Gypsies and Travellers. They explore the gendered social, health and economic impacts of settlement and demonstrate the tenacity of cultural formations and their adaptability in the face of policy-driven constraints that are antithetical to traditional lifestyles. The groundbreaking book is essential reading for policy makers; professionals and practitioners working with housed Gypsies and Travellers. It will also be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, social policy and housing specialists and anybody interested in the experiences and responses of marginalized communities in urban and rural settings. Royalties for this book are to be divided equally between the Gypsy Council and Travellers Aid Trust.
Gypsies in Central Asia and the Caucasus
by Elena Marushiakova Vesselin PopovThis book explores diverse communities living in Central Asia and the Caucasus, who are generally gathered under the umbrella term of ‘Gypsies’, their multidimensional identities, self-appellations and labels given to them by surrounding populations, researcher and policy-makers. The book presents various Gypsy and Gypsy-like communities and provides a comprehensive review of their history, demography, ways of life, past and present occupations, and contemporary migration in post-Soviet space. The authors situate these communities in historical settings and also in the wider context of contemporary evolving global and areal developments.The book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, sociology, social anthropology, nationalities studies, global and Central Asia and Caucasus areal studies, and Gypsy/Romani studies, and also for policy-makers and civic organizations.
The Gypsies of Eastern Europe
by David Crowe John Kolsti Ian HancockIn recent news coverage of the dramatic political events in Eastern Europe, Gypsies have been a favourite sidebar topic. Some of the stories have been truly horrifying, others are written condescendingly and to amuse; but what has become clear is how little we really know about this people. In a concerted effort to uncover the modern history of the Rom in Eastern Europe, the authors examine the Gypsy experience in Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia, with special attention to the Nazi Holocaust as well as to the record of the forced settlement and education programmes instituted by communist regimes.
The Gypsies of Eastern Europe
by David Crowe John Kolsti Ian HancockIn recent news coverage of the dramatic political events in Eastern Europe, Gypsies have been a favourite sidebar topic. Some of the stories have been truly horrifying, others are written condescendingly and to amuse; but what has become clear is how little we really know about this people. In a concerted effort to uncover the modern history of the Rom in Eastern Europe, the authors examine the Gypsy experience in Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia, with special attention to the Nazi Holocaust as well as to the record of the forced settlement and education programmes instituted by communist regimes.