Oral history

This great Central Asian epic, passed down through generations and now brought to life in a new translation, carries the reader into a world of nomads, warriors and horselords'I am a steel-fanged lion, a dragon ready to pounce, a mighty poplar with golden branches rising up to the sky'The bard Sagh mbay Orozbaq uulu composed his oral telling of the great Central Asian Manas epic in the early twentieth century, although it draws on far older sources.

This book brings together the Armenian Genocide process and its transgenerational outcome, which are often juxtaposed in existing scholarship, to ask how the Armenian Genocide is conceptualized and placed within diasporic communities.

A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes in British history.

This collection presents diverse scholarly approaches to oral narratives in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds.

The Easter Rising of 1916 not only destroyed much of the centre of Dublin -- it changed the course of Irish history.

Women came through the doors at a community-based birthing center in the South Bronx seeking prenatal care.

This book introduces readers to a wide range of interpretations that take oral history and folklore as the premise with a focus on Italian and Italian American culture in disciplines such as history, ethnography, memoir, art, and music.

Discover a powerful collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true stories of the Underground Railroad.

It has appeared to many commentators that the most fundamental change in what it is meant to be working-class in twentieth-century Britain came not as a result of war or of want, but of prosperity.

A city of over one million people caught between volcanic eruptions and armed conflict, Goma has come to embody the 'tragedy' that is the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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.

Wer war der "Schwarze Doktor", der vor Jahrhunderten in den Wäldern zwischen Ober- und Unterweißbach lebte?

Aristocrat, democrat, diplomat, cultural advocate, anglophile, fiercely proud Canadian—Vincent Massey was a complex, sometimes enigmatic figure.

The Punjab region of India sent more than 600,000 combatants to assist the British war effort during World War I.

In this study of the problems of social organization in a rural community of Alberta, a drought-afflicted wheat-growing area centring round the town of Hanna is described as it appeared to the sociologist in 1946.

This book collects original research essays to explore the diverse uses of photographs and photography in oral history, from the use of photos as memory triggers to their deployment in the telling of life stories.

';What do you do?

Zum Wandel von Zeugenschaft in wiederholten Befragungen von Holocaust-Überlebenden Was können wir aus den Erzählungen von Holocaust-Überlebenden lernen und warum erwarten wir von ihnen moralische Botschaften als Lehre aus den NS-Verbrechen?

For over forty years aural historian Jack Loeffler has wandered the West engaging people in conversations and recording those conversations for posterity.

How objective are our history books?

This volume explores the rich pre-history, history, and oral history of the northeast region of India--a land-locked region that is home to over 350 ethnolinguistic communities.

Situates Pauline analysis within the context of early Christian institutions.

President Bill Clinton led one of the most influential and consequential White House tenures in recent memory.

Liliana Segre ist die wohl bekannteste Holocaust-Überlebende Italiens.

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.

Arthwyr ap Meurig, der wahre König Arthur, im Schatten der Normannen & Franken, ist meine deutsche Übersetzung der historischen Bücher von Wilson & Blackett.

Tirol aus nächster Nähe - und aus fünf spannenden Blickwinkeln!

Women make up the vast majority of Protestant Christians in China-a largely faceless majority, as their stories too often go untold in scholarly research as well as popular media.