FLORENCIA CORTÉS-CONDE Director, Communications Programme, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos AiresDARIÉN J. DAVID Associate Professor of History, Middlebury College, VermontGEOFFREY FISHER Geography Department, University of DerbyROSS A. GRAHAM Freelance TeacherLOUISE GUENTHER Assistant Professor of History, St John's College, Santa Fe, New MexicoRONALD HARPELLE Assistant Professor of History, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, OntarioDEBORAH JAKUBS Adjunct Associate Professor of History, Perkins Library of Duke University, Durham, North CarolinaPATRICK McKENNA Independent ResearcherJAMES N. McELVEEN Editor, US Department of StateJOHN MAYO Senior Lecturer in History, University of West Indies, Cave Hill, BarbadosLAURIE NOCK Anthropology Instructor, Grande Prairie Regional College, AlbertaKAREN RACINE Assistant Professor of History, Valparaiso University, IndianaJIM ROSS Senior Lecturer in English and Communications, London Guildhall UniversityBARBARA A. TENENBAUM Specialist in Mexican Culture, US Library of Congress

• Preface Introduction PART 1: IMAGES AND REPRESENTATIONS Ethnicity as a Deathtrap. The History of Gypsy-Studies The Church of Knowledge. Representation of Gypsies in Encyclopedias PART 2: STIGMATIZATION AND GOVERNMENT POLICIES Eternal Vagrants? State Formation, Migration and Travelling Groups in Western Europe, 1350-1914 'Harmful Tramps'. Police Professionalization and Gypsies in Germany, 1700-1945 A Silent War: Foreign Gypsies and the Dutch Government Policy The Making of a Minority: The Case of Dutch Travellers PART 3: SOCIAL-ECONOMIC FUNCTIONING A Blind Spot: Migratory and Travelling Groups in Western European Historiography The Klink of the Hammer was heard from Daybreak till Dawn: Gypsy Occupations in Western Europe (19th-20th Centuries) Dutch Travellers: Dwellings, Origins and Occupations Notes Bibliography Index

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