This oral history of ex-combatants of the Portuguese colonial war places the reader face-to-face with the men who were conscripted to fight the last and bloodiest of the West's colonial wars in Africa, namely in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau (then Portuguese Guinea), between 1961 and 1974.
This book sheds new light on the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt, drawing on a remarkable set of oral histories gathered in the 1950s from those who knew him.
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.
This collection of interviews explores how the Chinese Dream is fueling the aspirations of individuals in China today and presents 40 representative cases that showcase the journeys that ordinary people undertake in pursuit of their dreams as well as their extraordinary achievements.
This book looks at the memory of the communist past in Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on Bulgaria: its "e;official"e; memory, constructed by institutions, its public memory, molded by media, rituals, books and films and the urban environment, and the everyday or 'vernacular' memory.
This book presents an innovative method to investigate the history of mathematics education using oral narratives to study different aspects related to the teaching and learning of mathematics.
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.
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.
This collection of interviews explores how the Chinese Dream is fueling the aspirations of individuals in China today and presents 40 representative cases that showcase the journeys that ordinary people undertake in pursuit of their dreams as well as their extraordinary achievements.
Die Tochter des Widerständlers Adam von Trott reflektiert über die »knospenden Saaten«, die ihr Vater ihrer Familie und der Nachwelt hinterlassen haben.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Tirol durch die Augen von sechs seiner bekanntesten Persönlichkeiten: Alpinlegende und Extrembergsteiger Reinhold Messner erzählt von abenteuerlichen Erfahrungen in den Bergen, in der Wüste und im ewigen Eis, über Grenzgänge - und vom Heimkehren nach Südtirol.
Die erste Monografie zum BUND DEUTSCHER MÄDEL IN TIROL bietet erhellende Einblicke in die Bedeutung und Funktionsweise dieser NS-Jugendorganisation und zeigt, wie manche Frauen dadurch im "Dritten Reich" Kariere machen konnten.
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 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.
This oral history of ex-combatants of the Portuguese colonial war places the reader face-to-face with the men who were conscripted to fight the last and bloodiest of the West's colonial wars in Africa, namely in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau (then Portuguese Guinea), between 1961 and 1974.
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.
Illuminating the experiences of immigrants to Australia in the late twentieth century, this book uses oral history to explore how identity and belonging are shaped through migration.
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.
This book looks at the memory of the communist past in Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on Bulgaria: its "e;official"e; memory, constructed by institutions, its public memory, molded by media, rituals, books and films and the urban environment, and the everyday or 'vernacular' memory.
This book translates and contextualizes the recollections of men and women who built, lived, and worked in some of the factory compounds relocated from China's most cosmopolitan city-Shanghai.
Illuminating the experiences of immigrants to Australia in the late twentieth century, this book uses oral history to explore how identity and belonging are shaped through migration.
This book traces the life of Maria Mia Truskier, who fled the Nazis as a young Polish Jew in early 1940 and once safely resettled in the United States, became an activist for other refugees, earning renown in the Bay Area as "e;the oldest refugee"e; of the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant.
This book sheds new light on the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt, drawing on a remarkable set of oral histories gathered in the 1950s from those who knew him.
