Product Description: Originating in India, the Gypsies arrived in Europe around the 14th century, spreading not only across the entirety of the continent but also immigrating to the Americas. The first Gypsy migration included farmworkers, blacksmiths, and mercenary soldiers, as well as musicians, fortune-tellers, and entertainers...read more

Product Description: First published in 1995, this engrossing history summarizes the story of the Nazi persecution of the Gypsies and sets this series of tragic events of the 20th century within the context of many centuries of harassment and mistreatment borne of deep-rooted prejudice in European society against Gypsies...read more

There are some seven million gypsies in Europe, an often mythologized people in the past. But now they represent a new political force, both in eastern Europe and as a new westward migration begins.The Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies) provides a wealth of definite, factual information about this people, and their unique culture.

A desktop reference guide to people, countries and subjects in the Romani world, including a detailed chronology of the history of the Romani people.

Product Description: This illustrated text tracing the origin of the Gypsies in India and their journey westward up until their arrival on the shores of the Mediterranean at Constantinople was first published in France in 1993 (in French and English) as Gypsies - From India to the Mediterranean but the English edition was not easily obtainable in this country...read more

Product Description: The Roma presence in the European part of the Ottoman Empire - the Balkans - is centuries old and it is not by accident that this regions has often been called the second motherland of the Gypsies. From this region Gypsies moved westwards taking with them inherited Balkan cultural models and traditions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work has been assembled in honour of the 70th birthday of the doyen of committed Romani linguistics in Britain, Donald Kenrick. It includes a critical biographical study of his work by Thomas Acton; theories on the emergence of Romani itself by Ian Hancock; Peter Bakker on the origins of English Romani; and Anthony Grant takes an unsentimental look at the prospects for survival of minority languages in Britain...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The first 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 Hitler's Europe.