Oral history books

1341 books were found.

Life History and the Irish Migrant Experience in Post-War England: Myth, Memory and Emotional Adaption

Life History and the Irish Migrant Experience in Post-War...

Author: Barry Hazley
ISBN: 9781526128003
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production...  Read More >>

World War I in Central and Eastern Europe: Politics, Conflict and Military Experience

World War I in Central and Eastern Europe: Politics,...

Author: Judith Devlin (University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland) ,  John Paul Newman (NUI Maynooth, Republic of Ireland)
ISBN: 9780755602261
Format: Paperback
$66.99

In the English language World War I has largely been analysed and understood through the lens of the Western Front....  Read More >>

Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict: The Wheat Fields Still Whisper

Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict:...

Author: Mallika Kaur
ISBN: 9783030246730
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Mallika Kaur unearths the stories of three people who found themselves at the center of Punjab’s human rights movement:...  Read More >>

They Said This Day Would Never Come: The Magic of Obama's Improbable Campaign

They Said This Day Would Never Come: The Magic of Obama's...

Author: Chris Liddell-Westefeld
ISBN: 9781529308242
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The thrilling, inspirational story of Obama's first Presidential campaign, as told by those who lived it.  Read More >>

The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard: Contradiction and Meaning in City Form

The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard:...

Author: Abraham Akkerman
ISBN: 9781487501266
Format: Hardback
$145.00

Originating in archaic parables of the Garden and the Citadel, gender allegories have been projected upon built...  Read More >>

Mothers as Keepers and Tellers of Origin Stories

Mothers as Keepers and Tellers of Origin Stories

Author: Kerri Kearney ,  Lee Murray
ISBN: 9781772582123
Format: Paperback
$50.60

This collection presents diverse critical perspectives and discussion about the keeping or telling of children’s...  Read More >>

Ruhleben: A Prison Camp Society

Ruhleben: A Prison Camp Society

Author: J. Davidson Ketchum ,  Robert B. MacLeod
ISBN: 9781487525750
Format: Paperback
$93.15

This is an unusual book in that it is an important contribution to social psychology and also an absorbing story...  Read More >>

Voices of African Immigrants in Kentucky: Migration, Identity, and Transnationality

Voices of African Immigrants in Kentucky: Migration,...

Author: Francis Musoni ,  Iddah Otieno
ISBN: 9780813178608
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Following historical and theoretical overview of African immigration, the heart of this book is based on oral history...  Read More >>

Christianity, Femininity and Social Change in Contemporary China

Christianity, Femininity and Social Change in Contemporary...

Author: Li Ma
ISBN: 9783030318017
Format: Hardback
$168.16

Women make up the vast majority of Protestant Christians in China—a largely faceless majority, as their stories...  Read More >>

Pillars of Fire

Pillars of Fire

Author: Mason L. Jones
ISBN: 9781911593539
Format: Paperback
$33.61

This book takes a look at angels and explores the possibility that they might be quite different beings than those...  Read More >>

Literature and Culture in Global Africa

Literature and Culture in Global Africa

Author: Tanure Ojaide
ISBN: 9780367887469
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Exploring the idea of a ‘Global Africa’, this book examines how African literary and cultural productions have changed...  Read More >>

Practicing Oral History Among Refugees and Host Communities

Practicing Oral History Among Refugees and Host Communities...

Author: Marella Hoffman
ISBN: 9781138541313
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide to applied oral history with refugees, teaching the reader...  Read More >>

Practicing Oral History Among Refugees and Host Communities

Practicing Oral History Among Refugees and Host Communities...

Author: Marella Hoffman
ISBN: 9781138541306
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide to applied oral history with refugees, teaching the reader...  Read More >>

Sisterhood and After: An Oral History of the UK Women's Liberation Movement, 1968-present

Sisterhood and After: An Oral History of the UK Women's...

Author: Margaretta Jolly (Professor of Cultural Studies, Professor of Cultural Studies, School of Media, Film, and Music, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9780190658847
Format: Hardback
$94.95

This ground-breaking history of the UK Women's Liberation Movement shows why and how feminism's 'second wave' mobilized...  Read More >>

On A Burning Deck: An Oral History of the Great Migration

On A Burning Deck: An Oral History of the Great Migration...

Author: Tom Jones
ISBN: 9780578562704
Format: Hardback
$77.60

"In the earliest decades of the 20th century, more than twenty-eight million men and women--black and white--began...  Read More >>

An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba

An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba

Author: Doctor Nahla Abdo ,  Nur Masalha (SOAS, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781786993502
Format: Paperback
$46.99

A definitive study of the Palestinian Nakba, interweaving oral testimony from 1948 and the present day to reveal...  Read More >>

Rethinking Oral History and Tradition: An Indigenous Perspective

Rethinking Oral History and Tradition: An Indigenous...

Author: Nepia Mahuika (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of Waikato, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9780190681685
Format: Hardback
$139.95

Indigenous Oral History explores a specific indigenous community approach to oral history. It compares and contrasts...  Read More >>

Archival Material: Early Papers on History, Volume 25

Archival Material: Early Papers on History, Volume 25...

Author: Robert Doran, S.J. ,  John Dadosky
ISBN: 9781487506483
Format: Hardback
$135.00

In order to correctly assess Lonergan's life's work, it is crucial to have a familiarity with his early forays into...  Read More >>

An oral history of University College Galway, 1930-80: A university in living memory

An oral history of University College Galway, 1930-80:...

Author: Jackie Ui Chionna
ISBN: 9781846828126
Format: Paperback
$58.22

`The University in Living Memory' was an oral history project initiated by NUIG in 2007 to establish what it was...  Read More >>

Archival Material: Early Papers on History, Volume 25

Archival Material: Early Papers on History, Volume 25...

Author: Robert Doran, S.J. ,  John Dadosky
ISBN: 9781487524388
Format: Paperback
$62.99

In order to correctly assess Lonergan's life's work, it is crucial to have a familiarity with his early forays into...  Read More >>

London Labour and the London Poor: Selections

London Labour and the London Poor: Selections

Author: Henry Mayhew ,  Barbara Leckie
ISBN: 9781554813391
Format: Paperback
$51.62

Produced between 1850 and 1862, London Labour and the London Poor is one of the most significant examples of nineteenth...  Read More >>

Voices and Books in the English Renaissance: A New History of Reading

Voices and Books in the English Renaissance: A New History...

Author: Jennifer C. Richardson (Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature, Newcastle University)
ISBN: 9780198809067
Format: Hardback
$168.95

Discusses how literary culture in the Renaissance was fundamentally oral and studies a variety of literary soundscapes,...  Read More >>

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