Oral history books

1378 books were found.

Oral History: The challenges of dialogue

Oral History: The challenges of dialogue

Author: Marta Kurkowska-Budzan (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) ,  Krzysztof Zamorski (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
ISBN: 9789027226501
Format: Hardback
$393.36

Oral History: The Challenges of Dialogue shows contemporary oral history at work in a variety of contexts, levels,...  Read More >>

Archives of Memory: A Soldier Recalls World War II

Archives of Memory: A Soldier Recalls World War II

Author: Alice M. Hoffman ,  Howard S. Hoffman
ISBN: 9780813192499
Format: Paperback
$79.20

But the principal purpose of this study was to explore the bounds of memory, to gauge its accuracy and its stability...  Read More >>

Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal

Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop...

Author: Silas House ,  Jason Howard
ISBN: 9780813125466
Format: Hardback
$73.79

Something's Rising collects oral histories from a diverse group of individuals from Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee,...  Read More >>

Moving Histories of Class and Community: Identity, Place and Belonging in Contemporary England

Moving Histories of Class and Community: Identity, Place...

Author: B. Rogaly ,  B. Taylor
ISBN: 9780230295384
Format: Paperback
$81.84

A major new study of white working class Britain since 1930, that shows how meanings of poverty have changed over...  Read More >>

Navy Medicine in Vietnam: Oral Histories from Dien Bien Phu to the Fall of Saigon

Navy Medicine in Vietnam: Oral Histories from Dien Bien...

Author: Jan K. Herman
ISBN: 9780786439997
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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Singing for a Spirit: A Portrait of the Dakota Sioux

Singing for a Spirit: A Portrait of the Dakota Sioux...

Author: Vine Deloria, Jr
ISBN: 9781574160253
Format: Hardback
$65.87

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Minong: The Good Place - Ojibwe and Isle Royale

Minong: The Good Place - Ojibwe and Isle Royale

Author: Timothy Cochrane
ISBN: 9780870138492
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Minong (the Ojibwe name for Isle Royale) is the search for the history of the Ojibwe people's relationship with...  Read More >>

It Happened in Brooklyn: An Oral History of Growing Up in the Borough in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s

It Happened in Brooklyn: An Oral History of Growing...

Author: Myrna Katz Frommer ,  Harvey Frommer
ISBN: 9781438427508
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Features over one hundred voices that recall, chronicle, and celebrate the Brooklyn of legend.  Read More >>

It Happened in the Catskills: An Oral History in the Words of Busboys, Bellhops, Guests, Proprietors, Comedians, Agents, and Others Who Lived It

It Happened in the Catskills: An Oral History in the...

Author: Myrna Katz Frommer ,  Harvey Frommer
ISBN: 9781438427485
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Features more than one hundred voices that recall the 'Borscht Belt' in its heyday.  Read More >>

Memories of Mass Repression: Narrating Life Stories in the Aftermath of Atrocity

Memories of Mass Repression: Narrating Life Stories...

Author: Selma Leydesdorff ,  Selma Leydesdorff
ISBN: 9781412808538
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Presents the results of researchers working with the voices of witnesses. This work contributes to the development...  Read More >>

A Red Family: Junius, Gladys, and Barbara Scales

A Red Family: Junius, Gladys, and Barbara Scales

Author: Mickey Friedman ,  Barbara Scales
ISBN: 9780252033964
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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A Red Family: Junius, Gladys, and Barbara Scales

A Red Family: Junius, Gladys, and Barbara Scales

Author: Mickey Friedman ,  Barbara Scales
ISBN: 9780252076046
Format: Paperback
$60.99

The searing memoir of an American communist family  Read More >>

Soldiers and Citizens: An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to the Pentagon

Soldiers and Citizens: An Oral History of Operation...

Author: C. Mirra ,  Kenneth A. Loparo
ISBN: 9780230601550
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This book is the first comprehensive oral history of the Iraq War. It presents the raw and vivid testimonies and...  Read More >>

The British Book Trade: An Oral History

The British Book Trade: An Oral History

Author: Sue M Bradley
ISBN: 9780712349574
Format: Hardback
$129.36

Describes the world in which books happened, and how that world has changed. This title delivers an account drawn...  Read More >>

Inconstant Companions: Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions

Inconstant Companions: Archaeology and North American...

Author: Ronald J. Mason
ISBN: 9780817355333
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Explores the tension between aboriginal oral traditions and the practice of archaeology in North America. Through...  Read More >>

Soldiers and Citizens: An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to the Pentagon

Soldiers and Citizens: An Oral History of Operation...

Author: C. Mirra ,  Kenneth A. Loparo
ISBN: 9780230601642
Format: Paperback
$79.20

This book is the first comprehensive oral history of the Iraq War. It presents the raw and vivid testimonies and...  Read More >>

'Inside' Swindon Works: Railway Voices

'Inside' Swindon Works: Railway Voices

Author: Rosa Matheson
ISBN: 9780752445267
Format: Paperback
$38.79

The Beginning of 'the Works' has entered into the mythology that is now part and parcel of the history of Swindon...  Read More >>

Chicana Sexuality and Gender: Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art

Chicana Sexuality and Gender: Cultural Refiguring in...

Author: Debra J. Blake
ISBN: 9780822343103
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Chicana Sexuality and Gender: Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art

Chicana Sexuality and Gender: Cultural Refiguring in...

Author: Debra J. Blake
ISBN: 9780822342946
Format: Hardback
$237.47

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The American Indian Oral History Manual: Making Many Voices Heard

The American Indian Oral History Manual: Making Many...

Author: Charles E. Trimble ,  Mary Kay Quinlan
ISBN: 9781598741476
Format: Hardback
$208.56

Addresses the unique issues of conducting of oral histories of and by American Indian peoples with a practical,...  Read More >>

Women's Voices from the Spanish Civil War

Women's Voices from the Spanish Civil War

Author: Jim Fyrth ,  Sally Alexander
ISBN: 9781905007875
Format: Paperback
$46.58

Includes writing by women from Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand - and from unsung nurses and...  Read More >>

Himalayan Tribal Tales: Oral Tradition and Culture in the Apatani Valley

Himalayan Tribal Tales: Oral Tradition and Culture in...

Author: Stuart Blackburn
ISBN: 9789004171336
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Apatani oral tradition, in the eastern Himalayas, illustrates key cultural ideas, social practices and identity...  Read More >>

The Fate of Holocaust Memories: Transmission and Family Dialogues

The Fate of Holocaust Memories: Transmission and Family...

Author: C. Roth
ISBN: 9780230606074
Format: Hardback
$224.40

An innovative mix of history and psychological research, this book tells the story of one family of Holocaust survivors...  Read More >>

Asian Americans In The Twenty-first Century: Oral Histories of First- to Fourth-Generation Americans from China, Japan, India, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, and La

Asian Americans In The Twenty-first Century: Oral Histories...

Author: Joann Faung Jean Lee
ISBN: 9781595581525
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Features interviews with Asian Americans that brilliantly illuminate...  Read More >>

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