Oral history books

Orality and Literacy investigates the interactions of the oral and the literate through close studies of particular...  Read More >>

This two-volume book offers extensive interviews with persons who have made significant contributions to thanatology,...  Read More >>

Passengers chronicles the true story of the Underground Railroad - the secret methods, risks and covert sacrifices...  Read More >>

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This open access book is unique in presenting the first oral history of individuals with an intellectual disability...  Read More >>

This open access book contains the oral histories that were inspired by the work of the Special Olympics in conjunction...  Read More >>

This open access book brings together oral histories that record the experiences of individuals with intellectual...  Read More >>

This book looks beyond the Aylesbury’s public face by examining its rise and fall from the perspective of those...  Read More >>

Offering a roadmap for practising verbatim theatre (plays created from oral histories), this book outlines theatre...  Read More >>

Die Druckerei Froben produzierte im 16. Jahrhundert vier wegweisende Editionen des Flavius Josephus: Sowohl die...  Read More >>

Offering a roadmap for practising verbatim theatre (plays created from oral histories), this book outlines theatre...  Read More >>

The personal story of a brave Palestinian woman’s fight for dignity and freedom.  Read More >>

Poignant first-person accounts from forty World War II heroes from all walks of life and all services  Read More >>

A dramatic, multi-vocal account of the personal agonies and ecstasies that played out within the walls of Ellis...  Read More >>

The terrifying future of our world after climate change -- as predicted by a leading geochemist  Read More >>

Parliament is Britain's most important political institution, yet its workings remain obscure to academics and the...  Read More >>

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

"The City of London has been a major settlement for two millennia. It became the epicentre of trading with the world...  Read More >>

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

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Gives voice to the women of the Egyptian Revolution, and reveals their courage and resilience in the face of sexual...  Read More >>

Crowley interviews residents of one of Seattle's most culturally vibrant and racially diverse neighborhoods, now...  Read More >>

The Devil's Historians offers a passionate corrective to common and very dangerous myths about the medieval world....  Read More >>

This open access book brings together oral histories that record the experiences of individuals with intellectual...  Read More >>