Mohlo by se vám také líbit

Více informací o knize Gypsies

• Parametry knihy
• Anotace
• Oblíbené z jiného soudku

Nákupem získáte 43 bodů

Anotace knihy

Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and—more recently—Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are claims of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many myths and stories that have accreted around them over time? Can they even be regarded as a single people or ethnicity at all? Gypsies have frequently been vilified, and not much less frequently romanticized, by the settled population over the centuries. Social historian David Cressy now attempts to disentangle the myth from the reality of Gypsy life over more than half a millennium of English history. In this, the first comprehensive historical study of the doings and dealings of Gypsies in England, he draws on original archival research, and a wide range of reading, to trace the many moments when Gypsy lives became entangled with those of villagers and townsfolk, religious and secular authorities, and social and moral reformers. Crucially, it is a story not just of the Gypsy community and its peculiarities, but also of England's treatment of that community, from draconian Elizabethan statutes, through various degrees of toleration and fascination, right up to the tabloid newspaper campaigns against Gypsy and Traveller encampments of more recent years.

Parametry knihy

• Plný název: Gypsies
• Autor: Cressy, David (George III Professor of British History and Humanities Distinguished Professor Emeritus, George III Professor of British History and Humanities Distinguished Professor Emeritus, The Ohi
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 432
• EAN: 9780198768142
• ISBN: 0198768141
• ID: 28251936
• Nakladatelství: Oxford University Press
• Hmotnost: 432 g
• Rozměry: 136 × 215 × 51 mm
• Datum vydání: 23. July 2020

Oblíbené z jiného soudku

---

---

---