Oral history

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.

'A different level of insight to anything I've read for a long time about Russia.

Despite acute labour shortages during the Second World War, Canadian employers—with the complicity of state officials—discriminated against workers of African, Asian, and Eastern and Southern European origin, excluding them from both white collar and skilled jobs.

What is re-enactment and how does it relate to heritage?

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.

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

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.

The love story of Susanna Moodie and her husband John has always been a shadowy area in Canadian literary history.

An oral-history-based biography of a seminal Asian-American activist.

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

Among sources on the Holocaust, survivor testimonies are the least replaceable and most complex, reflecting both the personality of the narrator and the conditions and perceptions prevailing at the time of narration.

The appearance of Volume II of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine makes the second stage of a major publishing project.

A look at the lives of nine Jewish Holocaust survivors after their liberation from Nazi concentration camps, when they settled in rural Kentucky.

How much of the folk tales of our ancestors is rooted in fact, and what can they tell us about the future?

This volume is an edited collection of critical essays on British Asian theatre.

During the Vietnam War, the US Air Force secretly trained pilots from Laos, skirting Lao neutrality in order to bolster the Royal Lao Air Force and their own war efforts.

This volume is a pioneering excursion into the documentary history of a region of northern Ontario.

Marguerite Yourcenar is best known as the author of the 1951 novel Memoires d'Hadrien, her recreation of the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian.

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.

The foundation of a stable democracy in Spain was built on a settled account: an agreement that both sides were equally guilty of violence, a consensus to avoid contention, and a pact of oblivion as the pathway to peace and democracy.

Women born in mid twentieth-century Britain were the 'welfare state generation' not only were their lives fundamentally shaped by the welfare state, they helped to transform it.