Oral history

A history of roaring prosperity—and economic cataclysm: “The one account of America in the 1920s against which all others must be measured” (The Washington Post).

Journalists and poets, economists and political historians, have told the story of Canada’s railways, but their accounts pay little attention to the workers who built them.

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

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.

How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range?

Emotional Labour in Oral History Research critically appraises the many complex ways in which emotion management features in oral history research and its specific implications for the researcher.

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

A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River.

In this important new book, Paul T.

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.

Over the last several decades, video testimony with aging Holocaust survivors has brought these witnesses into the limelight.

In this revised edition of Paul Thompson's successful book, he traces oral history through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of this international movement.

From the introduction: "e;Folk-tales are the verbal account of the world view and way of life of a people.

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.

Channel 4's The Mill captivated viewers with the tales of the lives of the young girls and boys in a northern mill.

The Nazi regime and local collaborators killed 800,000 Belorussian Jews, many of them parents or relatives of youngJews who survived the war.

How is an oral historian to react when the unexpected emerges, whether in field research or interview analysis?

The essential humour gift book of the year returns in the anticipated fourth volume of this bestselling series guaranteed to provoke laughter and amazement.

On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence.

From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have changed the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped.

The Phoenix Park in Dublin holds a special place in the collective memory of Irish people.

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

Making the Scene is a history of 1960s Yorkville, Toronto's countercultural mecca.

In the mid- to late-1930s, while he was a student at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan wrote a series of eight essays on the philosophy and theology of history.

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