Oral history books

1314 books were found.

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.)
ISBN: 9781350192065
Format: Hardback
$180.00

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

Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective

Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in...

Author: Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková
ISBN: 9780367701741
Format: Paperback
$77.99

In Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective, researchers from five different continents...  Read More >>

Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective

Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in...

Author: Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková
ISBN: 9780367740917
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective, researchers from five different continents...  Read More >>

Reading History

Reading History

Author: Michael Burger
ISBN: 9781487523879
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Washington's Iron Butterfly: Bess Clements Abell, An Oral History

Washington's Iron Butterfly: Bess Clements Abell, An...

Author: Donald A. Ritchie ,  Terry Birdwhistell
ISBN: 9780813182261
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Offers a window into the life of Elizabeth 'Bess' Clements Abell, former social secretary to President Johnson....  Read More >>

The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances across Borders in South Asia

The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances across...

Author: Aniket De (PhD Scholar, PhD Scholar, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780190131494
Format: Hardback
$155.25

Combining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, The Boundary of Laughter explores how spaces of popular...  Read More >>

With Our Backs to Berlin: The German Army in Retreat 1945

With Our Backs to Berlin: The German Army in Retreat...

Author: Tony Tissier
ISBN: 9780750998482
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A vivid depiction of the extraordinary circumstances of the Third Reich's final days  Read More >>

We Don't Become Refugees by Choice: Mia Truskier, Survival, and Activism from Occupied Poland to California, 1920-2014

We Don't Become Refugees by Choice: Mia Truskier, Survival,...

Author: Teresa A. Meade
ISBN: 9783030845247
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book traces the life of Maria Mia Truskier, who fled the Nazis as a young Polish Jew in early 1940 and once...  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: 9780197601280
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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

Greek Islander Migration to Australia since the 1950s: (Re)discovering Limnian Identity, Belonging and Home

Greek Islander Migration to Australia since the 1950s:...

Author: Melissa N. Afentoulis
ISBN: 9783030856601
Format: Hardback
$258.72

Illuminating the experiences of immigrants to Australia in the late twentieth century, this book uses oral history...  Read More >>

Zev’s Children: An International Jewish Family

Zev’s Children: An International Jewish Family

Author: Kenneth Collins
ISBN: 9781803710075
Format: Paperback
$46.45

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A Force Like No Other 3: The Last Shift: The Final Selection of Real Stories from the Ruc Men and Women Who Policed the Troubles

A Force Like No Other 3: The Last Shift: The Final Selection...

Author: Colin Breen
ISBN: 9781780733319
Format: Paperback
$25.85

In this final part to his bestselling A Force Like No Other series, Colin Breen brings together more compelling...  Read More >>

Shadows In The Mist: Australian Aboriginal Myths

Shadows In The Mist: Australian Aboriginal Myths

Author: Dale Roberts ,  Ainslie Roberts
ISBN: 9781922473912
Format: Paperback
$29.95

Classic Aboriginal Myths illustrated by Ainslie Roberts, in full colour, and back in print after 30 years.  Read More >>

Inuit Oral History & Representation: Essays in Memory of Leah Aksaajuq Otak

Inuit Oral History & Representation: Essays in Memory...

Author: John MacDonald ,  Nancy Wachowich
ISBN: 9781897568415
Format: Paperback
$60.81

The essays in this collection explore a wide variety of topics broadly related to cultural renewal and representation,...  Read More >>

Emigre Voices: Conversations with Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria

Emigre Voices: Conversations with Jewish Refugees from...

Author: Bea Lewkowicz ,  Anthony Grenville
ISBN: 9789004469075
Format: Paperback
$314.16

In Emigre Voices Lewkowicz and Grenville present twelve oral history interviews with men and women who came to Britain...  Read More >>

Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India: Enchanting the State

Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India: Enchanting...

Author: Aditya Pratap Deo (University of Delhi, India.)
ISBN: 9781032108377
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Part anthropological history and part memoir, this book is a unique study of the polity of the colonial-princely...  Read More >>

Queen Elizabeth II: The Oral History - An extraordinary lifetime, told in the words of those who were there

Queen Elizabeth II: The Oral History - An extraordinary...

Author:
ISBN: 9781912836932
Format: Hardback
$64.69

A full, detailed and global portrait of a life lived in service.  Read More >>

The Horn of Africa Diasporas in Italy: An Oral History

The Horn of Africa Diasporas in Italy: An Oral History...

Author: Gabriele Proglio
ISBN: 9783030583286
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book delves into the history of the Horn of Africa diaspora in Italy and Europe through the stories of those...  Read More >>

The Book of Sea Shanties

The Book of Sea Shanties

Author: Nathan Evans
ISBN: 9781787399587
Format: Hardback
$29.99

This book of shanties will take you on a journey through time. Nathan Evans presents his favourite songs to sing...  Read More >>

The Ames Farm of Woolwich, Maine: Life of an American Family

The Ames Farm of Woolwich, Maine: Life of an American...

Author: Roberta Ames ,  Erik Lund
ISBN: 9781737794813
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Documents life of a Maine dairy-farming family, in the '30s to '50s. The author is the last member of a family which...  Read More >>

Nothing New in Europe?: Israelis Look at Antisemitism Today

Nothing New in Europe?: Israelis Look at Antisemitism...

Author: Anita Haviv-Horiner ,  Samuel Salzborn
ISBN: 9781800733176
Format: Hardback
$230.29

Anti-Semitism's recent rise in Europe and Germany has manifested in verbal hostility and attacks. Through fifteen...  Read More >>

John Miles Foley's World of Oralities: Text, Tradition, and Contemporary Oral Theory

John Miles Foley's World of Oralities: Text, Tradition,...

Author: Mark C. Amodio (Professor of English, Vassar College)
ISBN: 9781641894593
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Using a range of materials including the Bible, Greek epic, Beowulf, Old Norse, and Old English riddles, and medieval...  Read More >>

The Ames Farm of Woolwich, Maine: Life of an American Family

The Ames Farm of Woolwich, Maine: Life of an American...

Author: Roberta Ames ,  Erik Lund
ISBN: 9781737794820
Format: Hardback
$51.72

Documents life of a Maine dairy-farming family, in the '30s to '50s. The author is the last member of a family which...  Read More >>

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