Oral history books

1339 books were found.

Learning behind Bars: How IRA Prisoners Shaped the Peace Process in Ireland

Learning behind Bars: How IRA Prisoners Shaped the Peace...

Author: Dieter Reinisch
ISBN: 9781487545826
Format: Hardback
$127.59

This book sheds light on Irish republican prisoners during the Northern Irish Troubles and the ways in which they...  Read More >>

Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China

Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity...

Author: Martin T. Fromm
ISBN: 9781108469289
Format: Paperback
$64.66

In the 1980s, a Chinese state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and national...  Read More >>

Researching Memory and Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe: Interdisciplinary Methodologies

Researching Memory and Identity in Russia and Eastern...

Author: Jade McGlynn ,  Oliver T. Jones
ISBN: 9783030999131
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book offers a collection of innovative methodological approaches to Memory Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe....  Read More >>

Perspectives on Mizo Culture: A Critical Study of Laltluangliana Khiangte's Folktales of Mizoram

Perspectives on Mizo Culture: A Critical Study of Laltluangliana...

Author: P. V. Laxmiprasad
ISBN: 9781680534405
Format: Hardback
$235.40

Folktales of Mizoram is a translated collection of sixty-six short stories from northeast India taken up for a critical...  Read More >>

The Indo-European Language Family

The Indo-European Language Family

Author: Thomas Olander (University of Copenhagen)
ISBN: 9781108499798
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Modern languages like English, Spanish, Russian and Hindi as well as ancient languages like Greek, Latin and Sanskrit...  Read More >>

Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator

Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian...

Author: Paul Corner (Professor of European History (retired), Professor of European History (retired), University of Siena)
ISBN: 9780192866646
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and...  Read More >>

Later … With Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic and Mayhem

Later … With Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic...

Author: Mark Cooper ,  Jools Holland
ISBN: 9780008579937
Format: Paperback
$34.99

’You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later…’ Nick Cave ‘Later… is...  Read More >>

Later ... With Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic and Mayhem

Later ... With Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic...

Author: Mark Cooper ,  Jools Holland
ISBN: 9780008424374
Format: Hardback
$52.99

’You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later…’ Nick Cave ‘Later… is...  Read More >>

We Peaked at Paper: An Oral History of British Zines

We Peaked at Paper: An Oral History of British Zines...

Author: Gavin Hogg ,  Hamish Ironside
ISBN: 9781911052074
Format: Hardback
$51.75

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Everyday Lives in China's Cold War Military-Industrial Complex: Voices from the Shanghai Small Third Front, 1964-1988

Everyday Lives in China's Cold War Military-Industrial...

Author: Youwei Xu ,  Y. Yvon Wang
ISBN: 9783030996871
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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An Irish Folklore Treasury: A selection of old stories, ways and wisdom from The Schools’ Collection

An Irish Folklore Treasury: A selection of old stories,...

Author: John Creedon
ISBN: 9780717194223
Format: Hardback
$62.07

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Oral History and Business: Disruption and Continuity

Oral History and Business: Disruption and Continuity...

Author: Robert Crawford (RMIT, Australia) ,  Matthew Bailey
ISBN: 9780367774066
Format: Hardback
$103.00

This book introduces business historians to oral history methodologies and approaches. This succinct and accessible...  Read More >>

The Rescue of Belsen’s Diamond Children

The Rescue of Belsen’s Diamond Children

Author: Bettine Siertsema
ISBN: 9783030977061
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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

Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth and the Global Sixties in Poland

Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth...

Author: Malgorzata Fidelis (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago)
ISBN: 9780197643402
Format: Hardback
$127.95

"The Global Sixties are well known as a period of non-conformist lifestyles, experimentation with consumer products...  Read More >>

How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution

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

Author: Elizabeth Dore
ISBN: 9781803283791
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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

The Passengers: Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023

The Passengers: Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio...

Author: Will Ashon
ISBN: 9780571364145
Format: Hardback
$34.99

An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants.  Read More >>

Voices and Books in the English Renaissance

Voices and Books in the English Renaissance

Author: Jennifer Richards (Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature, Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature, Newcastle University)
ISBN: 9780192882240
Format: Paperback
$71.13

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

In Our Day: An Oral History of Dublin's Bygone Days

In Our Day: An Oral History of Dublin's Bygone Days...

Author: Kevin C. Kearns
ISBN: 9780717195596
Format: Hardback
$62.07

For over fifty years, Kevin C. Kearns trekked the streets of Dublin recording the city's vanishing oral history....  Read More >>

The Lives of the Children of Manasia: Oral History Interviews with the Bnei Menashe Community in Israel

The Lives of the Children of Manasia: Oral History Interviews...

Author: Hillel Halkin
ISBN: 9789657023914
Format: Paperback
$67.25

An illuminating introduction by Halkin explains the social, cultural, and historical setting that produced the B'nei...  Read More >>

Independence Day: A People's History

Independence Day: A People's History

Author: Veena Venugopal
ISBN: 9789393986054
Format: Hardback
$62.07

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The Memorial Feast for Kökötöy Khan: A Kirghiz Epic Poem in the Manas Tradition

The Memorial Feast for Kökötöy Khan: A Kirghiz Epic...

Author: Saghïmbay Orozbaq uulu ,  Daniel Prior
ISBN: 9780241544211
Format: Paperback
$27.99

An ancient Central Asian epic, passed down through generations, carries the reader into a world of nomads, warriors...  Read More >>

Escape to Miami: An Oral History of the Cuban Rafter Crisis

Escape to Miami: An Oral History of the Cuban Rafter...

Author: Elizabeth Campisi (Anthropologist, Albany, NY, Anthropologist, Albany, NY)
ISBN: 9780197604380
Format: Paperback
$71.25

"While the Naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba is well-known for its infamous prison camp, few people are aware of...  Read More >>

Belfast Punk and the Troubles: an Oral History

Belfast Punk and the Troubles: an Oral History

Author: Fearghus Roulston
ISBN: 9781526152237
Format: Hardback
$185.00

This book is an oral history of punk in Belfast from the mid-70s to the mid-80s. It reads a small number of interviews...  Read More >>

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