Oral history books

A feast of folk tales about food, with a foreword from Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food Movement  Read More >>

'Us firefighters do more than fight fires. We also assist those who have just gone through what's probably the worst...  Read More >>

Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both...  Read More >>

Published to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the definitive and bestselling first-person account of the...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the spread of American female consumer culture to Italy and its influence on Italian women in...  Read More >>

The true and moving holocaust story of Jewish schoolgirl Alie Lopes Dias and the fate of her schoolfriends in Amsterdam....  Read More >>

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An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China-told through the microcosm of one small...  Read More >>

An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China-told through the microcosm of one small...  Read More >>

Personal story of a Palestinian woman, teacher, and activist, from before and after the Nakba.  Read More >>

"In 1906 two Kurdish singers from Urfa, Sheikh Bozan and Ayib Agha Temir, dictated epics and stories from their...  Read More >>

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Classic Aboriginal Myths illustrated by Ainslie Roberts, in full colour, and back in print after 30 years.  Read More >>

Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors tells the stories of participants in the Russian avant-garde...  Read More >>

Newell Lyon learned the oral tradition from his elders in Maine's Penobscot Nation and was widely considered to...  Read More >>

Newell Lyon learned the oral tradition from his elders in Maine's Penobscot Nation and was widely considered to...  Read More >>

Through memories, photographs, maps and archives, Coley Talking tells the story of 19th and 20th-century life in...  Read More >>

11 days, 11 women's lives: how the events of September 11, 2001 changed everything for women across the globe  Read More >>

This book presents new perspectives on the multiplicity of voices in the histories of mental ill-health. In the...  Read More >>

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This book provides an oral history of women who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. It follows...  Read More >>

The year 2020 will be remembered as the year in which a deadly viral pandemic known as Covid-19 cast its dark shadow...  Read More >>

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Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies provides a concise and up-to-date survey of early record-making...  Read More >>

This book examines the framework of Kingship and the origin of legitimate rule from their beginnings in Mesopotamia...  Read More >>