The caravan of deplorables: perspectives on Romani Anglophobia in late modern Britain

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dc.contributor.authorLidstone, Michael Trent
dc.contributor.supervisorHammond, Mitch Lewis
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-04T19:44:10Z
dc.date.available2018-09-04T19:44:10Z
dc.date.copyright2018en_US
dc.date.issued2018-09-04
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractScholars researching Britain from the 1880s to the First World War have often failed to portray a diverse range of British attitudes towards the period’s state-sanctioned efforts to assimilate the Romani people. In most academic works, British voices that called for the elimination of Romani culture drown out those that were opposed to their assimilation into sedentary industrial wage-labour and formal education. They also mostly engage in only a surface analysis of the relationships between perspectives on the Romani and the great shifts occurring in British society. This thesis reveals a greater complexity of viewpoints within British society over issues of Romani assimilation that were increasingly fueled by the age’s rapid social and technological change. Poets, journalists, evangelical reformers, romantic gypsiologists and progressive politicians were some of the groups in Britain whose projections of fears and desires upon the Romani created an unintended referendum on the quickening forces of modernity.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/10028
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectgypsyen_US
dc.subjectgipsyen_US
dc.subjectromaen_US
dc.subjectromanien_US
dc.subjectgladstoneen_US
dc.subjectwelfareen_US
dc.subjectbritainen_US
dc.subjectenglanden_US
dc.subjectfreedomen_US
dc.subjectthaddeusen_US
dc.subjectsangeren_US
dc.subjectcircusen_US
dc.subjectshowen_US
dc.subjecttraveleren_US
dc.subjectvictorianen_US
dc.subjectnineteenthen_US
dc.subjectedwardianen_US
dc.subjectwaren_US
dc.titleThe caravan of deplorables: perspectives on Romani Anglophobia in late modern Britainen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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