Oral history books

1329 books were found.

Legends of the Capilano

Legends of the Capilano

Author: E. Pauline Johnson ,  Joe Capilano
ISBN: 9781772840179
Format: Paperback
$64.56

Updates E. Pauline Johnson’s 1911 classic Legends of Vancouver, restoring Johnson’s intended title for the first...  Read More >>

Picturing Black New Orleans: A Creole Photographer's View of the Early Twentieth Century

Picturing Black New Orleans: A Creole Photographer's...

Author: Arthé A. Anthony
ISBN: 9780813080192
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Balancing art, social theory, and history and drawing from family records, oral histories, and photographs rescued...  Read More >>

The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War—An Oral History

The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil...

Author: Bruce Chadwick
ISBN: 9781639363391
Format: Hardback
$79.07

The first-ever oral history of the attack that started the Civil War that combines illuminating historical narrative...  Read More >>

And I Looked Back: East Anglians In Their Own Words

And I Looked Back: East Anglians In Their Own Words...

Author: Gillian Campbell
ISBN: 9781803136905
Format: Paperback
$33.61

This is a work of East Anglian oral history. Over a period of nearly 30 years I listened to and recorded a number...  Read More >>

The Unexpected in Oral History: Case Studies of Surprising Interviews

The Unexpected in Oral History: Case Studies of Surprising...

Author: Ricardo Santhiago ,  Miriam Hermeto
ISBN: 9783031177484
Format: Paperback
$72.42

How is an oral historian to react when the unexpected emerges, whether in field research or interview analysis?...  Read More >>

Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture

Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature...

Author: Marta Fernández Campa
ISBN: 9783030721343
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book discusses an archival turn in the work of contemporary Caribbean writers and visual artists across linguistic...  Read More >>

Becoming a Mother: An Australian History

Becoming a Mother: An Australian History

Author: Carla Pascoe Leahy
ISBN: 9781526161208
Format: Hardback
$219.94

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Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party: Winner of the 2024 Penderyn Music Book Prize

Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s...

Author: Michael Cragg
ISBN: 9781788707244
Format: Hardback
$59.99

From Girl Power to Girls Aloud (and all the glorious points in between), the definitive study of British pop music...  Read More >>

Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives From Colombians Displaced by Violence

Throwing Stones at the Moon: Narratives From Colombians...

Author: Sibylla Brodzinsky ,  Max Schoening
ISBN: 9781642595611
Format: Hardback
$79.99

For nearly five decades, Colombia has been embroiled in internal armed conflict among guerrilla groups, paramilitary...  Read More >>

Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic

Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists...

Author: Mike Chinoy
ISBN: 9780231207997
Format: Paperback
$57.95

This book tells the story of how American journalists have covered China—from the civil war of the 1940s through...  Read More >>

Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic

Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists...

Author: Mike Chinoy
ISBN: 9780231207980
Format: Hardback
$232.95

This book tells the story of how American journalists have covered China—from the civil war of the 1940s through...  Read More >>

Porn: An Oral History

Porn: An Oral History

Author: Polly Barton
ISBN: 9781804270400
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A landmark work of oral history interrogating everything and anything related to porn.  Read More >>

My Disappearing Uncle: Europe, War and the Stories of a Scattered Family

My Disappearing Uncle: Europe, War and the Stories of...

Author: Kathy Henderson
ISBN: 9781803991221
Format: Hardback
$49.99

One scattered family and 200 years of European turmoil told through the stories passed down by its undaunted women...  Read More >>

Spoken Word: The Story of How Performance Poetry Changed the World

Spoken Word: The Story of How Performance Poetry Changed...

Author: Dr. Joshua Bennett
ISBN: 9781529110487
Format: Hardback
$45.00

Part cultural history, part ethnography, part memoir, Spoken Word is an exploration of one of the world's oldest...  Read More >>

Hidden Histories: Faith and Black Lesbian Leadership

Hidden Histories: Faith and Black Lesbian Leadership...

Author: Monique Moultrie
ISBN: 9781478019114
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Monique Moultrie collects oral histories of Black lesbian religious leaders in the United States to show how their...  Read More >>

Hidden Histories: Faith and Black Lesbian Leadership

Hidden Histories: Faith and Black Lesbian Leadership...

Author: Monique Moultrie
ISBN: 9781478016472
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Monique Moultrie collects oral histories of Black lesbian religious leaders in the United States to show how their...  Read More >>

Victims of the Cultural Revolution: Testimonies of China's Tragedy

Victims of the Cultural Revolution: Testimonies of China's...

Author: Prof. Youqin Wang
ISBN: 9780861542239
Format: Hardback
$89.99

The very purpose of history is to gather up what is about to be lost for ever.  Read More >>

Singing the Law: Oral Jurisprudence and the Crisis of Colonial Modernity in East African Literature

Singing the Law: Oral Jurisprudence and the Crisis of...

Author: Peter Leman
ISBN: 9781802078060
Format: Paperback
$131.97

Singing the Law is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear...  Read More >>

From Purgatory to Paradise: An Oral History of Artist Han Meilin from the Cultural Revolution to the Present Day

From Purgatory to Paradise: An Oral History of Artist...

Author: Feng Jicai
ISBN: 9781838905385
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Renowned artist Han Meilin gives an oral history of the harrowing events that turn his life and fledgling artistic...  Read More >>

Lochmaben: Community Memories

Lochmaben: Community Memories

Author: Isabelle C Gow ,  Sheila Findlay
ISBN: 9781910682500
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Lochmaben, in, Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland, has historic connections to the family of Robert the...  Read More >>

Industrial Craft in Australia: Oral Histories of Creativity and Survival

Industrial Craft in Australia: Oral Histories of Creativity...

Author: Jesse Adams Stein
ISBN: 9783030872458
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book is the first of its kind to investigate the ongoing significance of industrial craft in deindustrialising...  Read More >>

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