Oral history

Sechs das Land prägende Tiroler Persönlichkeiten berichten aus ihrem Leben: Der Seilbahnexperte und Präsident des Aufsichtsrates der Unternehmensgruppe Leitner Michael Seeber schildert seinen eindrucksvollen Weg vom chaotischen Studenten zum überaus erfolgreichen Unternehmer und lässt an ganz persönlichen Erinnerungen teilhaben.

The increased participation of women in the labour force was one of the most significant changes to Canadian social life during the quarter century after the close of the Second World War.

South-west Donegal, Ireland, June 1856.

Made famous in the 1976 documentary Harlan County USA, this pocket of Appalachian coal country has been home to generations of miners--and to some of the most bitter labor battles of the 20th century.

This book explores the experiences of 'Indo-Mozambicans,' citizens and residents of Mozambique who can trace their origins to the Indian subcontinent, a region affected by competing colonialisms during the twentieth century.

In war, there is no easy victory.

Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both countries.

We are a much-lectured people, wrote Robert Spence Watson in 1897.

The foundation of a stable democracy in Spain was built on a settled account: an agreement that both sides were equally guilty of violence, a consensus to avoid contention, and a pact of oblivion as the pathway to peace and democracy.

Indigenous peoples have our own ways of defining oral history.

Punjab was the arena of one of the first major armed conflicts of post-colonial India.

Das Café Spangenberg prägte über acht Jahrzehnte das Marburger Nordviertel und war ein beliebter Treffpunkt in der Bahnhofstraße.

This book analyzes two Romanian villages - 2 Mai and Vama Veche - as spaces of relative freedom during the last decades of socialist rule.

The book uses an innovative prism of interorality that powerfully reevaluates Caribbean orality and innovatively casts light on its overlooked and fundamental epistemological contribution into the formation of Caribbean philosophy.

Italy's 1948 constitution states that Italy is a 'republic founded upon work'.

This book explores the overlooked history of racial mixing in Britain during the course of the twentieth century, a period in which there was considerable and influential public debate on the meanings and implications of intimately crossing racial boundaries.

Samuel Gompers, the charismatic chief of the American Federation of Labor at the turn of the century, claimed to represent the interests of all workers in North America, but it was not until American corporations began to export jobs to Canada via branch plants that he became concerned with representing Canadian workers.

The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945.

Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History is the first book to provide serious scholarly insight into the methodological practices that shape lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer oral histories.

The horrific tragedies of Central Africa in the 1990s riveted the attention of the world.

Originally intending to produce the first comprehensive scholarly reference guide to the antecedents, practices, and theory of oral history, the editors have gone even further, creating a highly readable and useful tool for scholars, students, and the general public.

In 1949, Ireland left the Commonwealth and the British Empire began its long fragmentation.

Learning behind Bars is an oral history of former Irish republican prisoners in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland between 1971, the year internment was introduced, and 2000, when the high-security Long Kesh Detention Centre/HM Prison Maze closed.

At the end of World War II, many thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States from Europe in search of a new beginning.

Explores how to use different types of sources to write the history of slavery and the slave trade in Africa.

Punjab was the arena of one of the first major armed conflicts of post-colonial India.

Wednesday 12th June 1940.

The oral history of Britain's first West Indian immigrants and their descendantsIn 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica.

This book explores the discourse by and about refugees and asylum seekers in relation to memory with a particular focus on the United Kingdom.