Oral history

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.

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?

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.

This book explores the representation of intra-state conflicts.

The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time mysterious, ballet company of the twentieth century.

Unmittelbar nach der Befreiung der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager im Frühjahr 1945 entstanden Fotografien, die Berge von Leichen zeigen, Massengräber, halbverhungerte Überlebende auf Pritschen oder hinter Stacheldraht.

Dealing in part with the people involved in the Red River Rebellion of 1869-70, the novel is based on Begg's own experiences in the Red River Settlement and describes the realities of pioneer life.

Winner of the 2017 Jabuti Book PrizeThe Zika virus is devastating lives and communities.

The moorlands of Gascony are often considered one of the most dramatic examples of top-down rural modernization in nineteenth-century Europe.

Despite a long and rich tradition of oral history research, few are aware of the innovative and groundbreaking work of oral historians in Canada.

Nearly thirty years ago, Monika Vrzgulova took part in the very first oral history research project aimed at Holocaust survivors in Slovakia.

Emerging from the 'history from below' movement, sport history was marginalised for decades by those working within more traditional historical fields (and institutions).