Authors:Christopher Dyer, Richard Jones,
Publisher: University Of Hertfordshire Press
Keywords: regional, histo, local, explorations, villages, revisited, deserted
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2010-05-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1905313799
ISBN-13: 9781905313792

Assembling leading experts on the subject, this account explores the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of thousands of villages and smaller settlements in England and Wales between 1340 and 1750. By revisiting the deserted villages, this breakthrough study addresses questions that have plagued archaeologists, geographers, and historians since the 1940s—including why they were deserted, why some villages survived while others were abandoned, and who was responsible for their desertion—offering a series of exciting insights into the fate of these fascinating sites.

Author: Ian F. Hancock
Publisher: University Of Hertfordshire Press
Keywords: collection, interface, volume, people, romani
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1902806190
ISBN-13: 9781902806198

Written by a Romani (gypsy), this introduction to Roma life, health, food, culture, and society provides an insightful look at this despised by mysterious minority originating in India. Extensively illustrated, it looks at the people, their history since leaving India 1,000 years ago, and their rejection and exclusion from society in the countries where they settled. It offers candid advice on rejecting prejudices and stereotypes and getting to know the Roma as individuals, with short biographies of Roma in many different walks of life.

Author: Sulayman Al-Bassam
Publisher: University Of Hertfordshire Press
Keywords: summit, hamlet
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 190280662X
ISBN-13: 9781902806624

Powerful and disturbing, this version of the Hamlet story is set in a modern Middle Eastern state whose leader has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, Westernized dictator who juggles petro-dollars, arms dealers, and democratic slogans in an attempt to quell the rising tides of Islamic extremism. Presenting a composite of many Arab concerns that affect peoples from the Arabian Gulf to the Atlantic and beyond, it is a concrete and poetic formulation of an Arab viewpoint, combining aspects of the Arab oral-poetry tradition with the rhetoric of modern-day politics. It is Hamlet

Authors:Julie Milton, Richard Wiseman,
Publisher: University Of Hertfordshire Press
Keywords: research, guidelines, parapsychology, perception, extrasensory
Number of Pages: 94
Published: 1997-04-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0900458747
ISBN-13: 9780900458743

Laboratory tests of extrasensory perception have been going on for over 50 years, attracting international interest within the scientific community. Some scientists believe that these studies are well-conducted, and that positive results obtained support the existence of ESP. In contrast, critics have argued that there are serious methodological errors in such experiemnts and that their results should be ignored. However, both sides agree that there are many ways in which errors may arise in ESP studies and that anyone involved in conducting or assessing such experiments should be aware of the

Author: Ronald Lee
Publisher: University Of Hertfordshire Press
Keywords: rromanes, duma, das, romani, learn
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1902806441
ISBN-13: 9781902806440

Following 18 carefully structured lessons, this Romani language primer explores the vocabulary and grammar of the Kalderash Roma in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Designed for beginner students, this course reference begins with the basic verbs and nouns and builds through to the subtler grammatical necessities of reading and speaking the language. Quotations from native speakers, poems, songs, proverbs, and folktales add to the cultural and historical understanding of the language.

Authors:Luke Morris, Luke Clements,
Publisher: University Of Hertfordshire Press
Keywords: gypsies, travellers, reform, law, ground, gaining
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0900458984
ISBN-13: 9780900458989

This book contains an agenda for reform in the law, policy and practice relating to Travelling people in the areas of education, accommodation and site provision, health, social and other services, planning, eviction and criminal justice and is based on the recommendations of several specialist working parties and two major conferences. Part two, Voices for reform, includes contributions by some of the best known names and organisations active in the field. The Introduction is by Lord Avebury.

Author: Donald Kenrick
Publisher: University Of Hertfordshire Press
Keywords: chapter, interface, collection, war, second, gypsies, final, world
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1902806492
ISBN-13: 9781902806495

As the third and concluding volume of the series, this work examines the persecution of the Gypsy people in Hungary, Norway, Slovakia and Yugoslavia during World War II, together with Switzerland’s policy towards refugees. It also looks at the intertwined fates of the Jews and the Gypsies. Included in the coverage is an overview of the events following 1945—reparations and the postwar trials. Various methodologies associated with research and writings about the Holocaust are also discussed.