Oral history

This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses.

This is the first history of the Hippie Trail.

Sechs faszinierende Tiroler Persönlichkeiten, sechs spannende Geschichten und sechs unterschiedliche Blickwinkel auf die Heimat: Die Künstler Anton Christian und Walter Nagl, Alt-Bürgermeister Helmut Kopp, die Tochter des Südtiroler Freiheitskämpfers Georg Klotz, Eva Klotz, Kameramann und Hollywood-Regisseur Christian Berger und Unternehmer-Legende Leopold Wedl – sie alle berichten aus ihrem Leben und eröffnen damit einen ganz besonderen Blick auf Tirol und seine Geschichte.

The first twenty-five years of life in post-socialist Europe have seen vast political, economic, and cultural changes, as societies that lived under communist rule struggle with the traumas of the past and the challenges of the future.

This is the first academic history of the FA England women's national football team.

Analyzes how fangyan (local Chinese languages or dialects) were central to the creation of modern Chinese nationalism.

Jede Entscheidung, jeder Fortschritt, jede Krise – die Wurzeln unserer Gegenwart reichen tief in die Vergangenheit.

Gathered here are parts I and II of the Handbook of Oral History, which set the benchmark for knowledge of the field.

Amy S.

Few cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football.

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood has been home to a multicultural mosaic of immigrant communities: Jewish, Portuguese, Chinese, South Asian, Caribbean, and many others.

Analyses the relation between caste and knowledge practices and the exploration of the hierarchical colonial–Brahmanical forms of knowledge production.

To date there has been no plotting of punk scholarship which speaks to 'time', yet there are some clear bodies of work pertaining to particular issues relevant to it, including ageing and/or the life course and punk, memory and/or nostalgia and punk, 'punk history', and archiving and punk.

This book offers a collection of innovative methodological approaches to Memory Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe.

A pioneering work in oral history, this book tells the story of the rise and fall of the industrial revolution and the apogee and crisis of the labor movement through an oral history of Terni, a steel town in Central Italy and the seat of the first large industrial enterprise in Italy.

In the early 1950s fisherfolk and other villagers around Minamata Bay on the western coast of Kyushu, Japan, began to suffer from mysterious and often fatal symptoms of what came to be known as Minamata disease.

During the 872-day siege of Leningrad from September 1941 to January 1944, civilians endured air raids, bread rations as low as 125 grams, food theft and speculation by opportunistic officials and shadow market traders, and death by starvation.

TIROL UND SEINE MENSCHEN: FÜNF BEMERKENSWERTE PERSÖNLICHKEITEN ERZÄHLENFünf faszinierende Tiroler Persönlichkeiten begegnen uns einmal ganz nahe: Hansi Hinterseer,vor allem als CHARISMATISCHER SCHLAGERSTAR bekannt, berichtet aus seinem turbulenten Leben und seiner vielfältigen Karriere als Moderator, Schauspieler und Ex-Skirennläufer, aber auch von seinen ganz privaten Erinnerungen aus der idyllischen Kindheit auf der Seidlalm.

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

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

Incorporating many rare photographs from the family albums of survivors who tell their stories, Harvard professor Julie Silver, M.

Corpus Linguistics for Oral History takes a step-by-step approach to presenting how corpus linguistics tools and techniques can be applied to oral history archives.

This book arises out of a long series of conversations about one of the most intriguing, but still under-researched, aspects of testimony: how the remembering and telling of an individual Holocaust survivor changes through time, through shifting contexts and with increasing age.

This book introduces lexomics, the use of computer-aided statistical analysis of vocabulary, to measure influence and integrate research from cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology with traditional, philological approaches to literature.

Since the 1980s Chicana writers including Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, and Alma Luz Villanueva have reworked iconic Mexican cultural symbols such as mother earth goddesses and La Llorona (the Wailing Woman of Mexican folklore), re-imagining them as powerful female figures.

The first volume in a valuable oral history of the struggle for civil and human rights in South Carolina, as told by those who experienced it.

In addition to the problem of language, conducting oral histories with immigrant narrators often requires special considerations: past violence, cultural sensitivity, and lack of trust.

In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' collective action from 1900 to 1948.