Peoples of the Earth. Volume 03. Europe (including U.S.S.R. west of the Urals)

Supervisory Editor of the series - Professor Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard. — The Danbury Press, 1973. — 144 p.The object of this unique series of volumes has been to make it possible for the general reader to learn for the first time on a global scale about peoples, both large and small, as they are today or have recently been. The series covers peoples representing every level of technological culture, from hunters and collectors, still using stone tools, to the inhabitants of industrial cities, living as most of us today live, with all our comforts and yet also with all our strains and tensions as well.
Those humble peoples whose very survival is threatened are given as much attention as are those great nations which occupy whole continents. Here are demonstrated, in page after page, the fascinating differences between various types of men and the enormous variety of territorial and climatic circumstances in which they live, which in turn have produced a great variety of solutions and adjustments. A good deal of exaggeration, even of rubbish, certainly of prejudice, has been written in the past about peoples outside the West, and especially about what were called 'savage' or 'barbarous' peoples. This set of volumes aims at simply presenting the facts, insofar as they are known and, as the text and the thousands of pictures in color and black and white demonstrate, the facts speak for themselves and are fascinating enough.What is a nation? (Arnold Toynbee).
People of Moscow - USSR (Daniel Counihan).
The Georgians - USSR (P. Golovidze).
Norsemen - Scandinavia (Ted Spiegel).
Islanders of Karpathos - Greece (Mary Vouras).
Europe's Gypsies and the Camargue festival (Brian Vesey Fitzgerald).
Alpine Farmers (John Hutson).
The People of Southern Italy (J. H. R. Davis).
The Parisians (John Ardagh).
The Basques - Spain and France (Marianne Heiberg de Melian).
Bretons - France (Jean St Clair).
The industrial north - England (Arthur Hopcraft).
Tinkers - Ireland (Bettina Serrv Barnes).
The Poles (Nicholas Bethell).
The Celtic Fringe (R. Kennedy Skipton and Sir Iain Moncreiffe).
Venetians - Italy (Christopher Derrick).
The Europeans - their migrations during the First Millennium AD.
Glossary to the Peoples of Europe.