Oral history books

1329 books were found.

The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom: Lotharingia 855-869

The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom: Lotharingia 855-869...

Author: Charles West
ISBN: 9781487545093
Format: Hardback
$170.78

Opening up Carolingian history to a new generation, this book draws on recently translated primary sources to examine...  Read More >>

North to Boston: Life Histories from the Black Great Migration in New England

North to Boston: Life Histories from the Black Great...

Author: Blake Gumprecht (Journalist, Journalist)
ISBN: 9780197614440
Format: Hardback
$55.95

North to Boston tells the life histories of ten Black individuals who moved from the southern United States to Boston,...  Read More >>

The Rescue of Belsen’s Diamond Children

The Rescue of Belsen’s Diamond Children

Author: Bettine Siertsema
ISBN: 9783030977092
Format: Paperback
$369.57

The main sources on which this book is based are video testimonies of the surviving members of this group, personal...  Read More >>

The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik

The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik...

Author: Ross Bowden
ISBN: 9781912385515
Format: Hardback
$475.20

This ethnography of the Yalaku offers by far the most complete account of traditional warfare in the Sepik to be...  Read More >>

Ordinary Oralities: Everyday Voices in History

Ordinary Oralities: Everyday Voices in History

Author: Josephine Hoegaerts ,  Janice Schroeder
ISBN: 9783111078298
Format: Hardback
$145.77

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How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution

How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution...

Author: Elizabeth Dore
ISBN: 9781803283814
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The story of the decline of the Cuban Revolution over the last four decades, told through the lives of five ordinary...  Read More >>

Corpus of Early Accounts of the Sunjata Epic, 1889-1959

Corpus of Early Accounts of the Sunjata Epic, 1889-1959...

Author: Stephen Bulman (Head of Academic Standards & Quality, Head of Academic Standards & Quality, Lancaster University) ,  Stephen Belcher (Independent Scholar)
ISBN: 9780197267387
Format: Hardback
$201.00

The Corpus enables in-depth study of the coherence of and variation within the Sunjata epic oral tradition. It presents...  Read More >>

The Welfare State Generation: Women, Agency and Class in Britain since 1945

The Welfare State Generation: Women, Agency and Class...

Author: Dr Eve Worth (University of Oxford, UK.) ,  Lucy Noakes (University of Essex UK)
ISBN: 9781350192102
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book offers a new approach to the historical study of The Welfare State, with a close focuse on class and gender....  Read More >>

Flight from Chile: An Oral History of Exile

Flight from Chile: An Oral History of Exile

Author: Thomas Wright ,  Rody Oñate
ISBN: 9780826365484
Format: Paperback
$65.87

During the wave of mass arrests, torture, and executions that followed Pinochet’s coup, people began fleeing Chile....  Read More >>

A Year of Glory and Gold: 1932 – Ireland’s Jazz Age

A Year of Glory and Gold: 1932 – Ireland’s Jazz Age...

Author: Kevin C. Kearns
ISBN: 9780717195619
Format: Hardback
$62.07

An eclectic and surprising portrait of a forgotten period of Irish history.  Read More >>

Making Music: The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian County

Making Music: The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian County...

Author: William C. Allsbrook Jr.
ISBN: 9781496845818
Format: Paperback
$51.70

The banjo has been emblematic of the southern Appalachian Mountains since the late twentieth century. Making Music...  Read More >>

Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History

Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History

Author: Simon Danczuk ,  Daniel Smith
ISBN: 9781803993607
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The first book to tell the scandal-filled story of Dolphin Square, the UK's most notorious address  Read More >>

Making Music: The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian County

Making Music: The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian County...

Author: William C. Allsbrook Jr.
ISBN: 9781496845801
Format: Hardback
$168.30

The banjo has been emblematic of the southern Appalachian Mountains since the late twentieth century. Making Music...  Read More >>

Afterlives of War: A Descendants' History

Afterlives of War: A Descendants' History

Author: Michael Roper
ISBN: 9781526154033
Format: Hardback
$64.69

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Windrush: 75 Years of Modern Britain

Windrush: 75 Years of Modern Britain

Author: Trevor Phillips ,  Mike Phillips
ISBN: 9780008609702
Format: Paperback
$27.99

The oral history of Britain’s first West Indian immigrants and their descendants  Read More >>

Lola’s War: Rape Without Punishment

Lola’s War: Rape Without Punishment

Author: Olivera Simic
ISBN: 9789819919413
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This longitudinal study is based on the story of Lola, who was gang raped during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina...  Read More >>

Russian Nights Autocracy and Testimony: Life in Russia during the Soviet Period as Told by Those Who Lived it

Russian Nights Autocracy and Testimony: Life in Russia...

Author: Roberto Echavarren
ISBN: 9781648896736
Format: Hardback
$266.64

This is an encompassing volume presenting an intense display, as complete as can be, of testimonies, gathered between...  Read More >>

German Colonialism in Africa

German Colonialism in Africa

Author: Barbara Klich-Kluczewska ,  Klaus Bachmann
ISBN: 9783631896389
Format: Hardback
$119.03

Klaus Bachmann is professor of social sciences at SWPS University in Warsaw, Poland and specializes in colonial...  Read More >>

Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History

Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce...

Author: Dan Glass ,  Mark Glasgow
ISBN: 9780745346212
Format: Paperback
$38.79

Walk in our queer elders' footprints in this guide full of humour, joy, pathos and mischief  Read More >>

Steel City Readers: Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955

Steel City Readers: Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield,...

Author: Mary Grover
ISBN: 9781802078589
Format: Paperback
$64.66

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library....  Read More >>

Wounds of Our Past: Remembering Captivity, Enslavement and Resistance in African Oral Narratives

Wounds of Our Past: Remembering Captivity, Enslavement...

Author: Emmanuel Saboro
ISBN: 9789004549272
Format: Paperback
$142.56

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