The East European Gypsies Hardback: Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics - Hardcover

Barany

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521804108 ISBN 13: 9780521804103

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

This 2001 book is an attempt by a social scientist to explain the predicament of Gypsies (or Roma), Eastern Europe's largest ethnic minority, and their relationship to the region's states and societies. Barany examines the Gypsies' socioeconomic and political marginality and policies toward them through seven centuries in seven East European states.

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"It is an extremely rare occasion when a social scientist embraces the literature and research approaches of many different disciplines in a clear, concise, and well-crafted fashion. ...kudos are due to Zoltan Barany for his groundbreaking research, pioneering scholarship, and unwavering commitment to rigorous analyses of the Eastern European Roma." Journal of Politics

"New and very important is Barany's extensive coverage of Gypsy leadership on the national level in the several countries, as well as on the international level. ...Barany offers us a pioneering comparative study on a subject of considerable importance to students of Eastern Europe and of relevance to all who labor in the field of comparative politics where regime change, marginality, and ethnopolitics come to the fore." American Political Science Review

"Zoltan Barany's work represents one of the first attempts to study the Gypsies from a social-science perspectives....I recommend it highly for those interested in the place of the Roma in Eastern Europe, as well as for students of the position of minorities within the region in general." Slavic and East European Journal

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Book by Barany Zoltan

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0521804108
• ISBN 13: 9780521804103
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 422