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  • - An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi Embrey
    af D. Bahr
    557,95 - 558,95 kr.

    An oral-history-based biography of a seminal Asian-American activist. The book traces Embrey's life from her youth in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, to her harrowing experiences in the Japanese internment camps, to her many decades of passionate advocacy on behalf of her fellow internees.

  • - Bush, Kohl, Gorbachev, and the Reunification of Germany
    af Alexander von Plato
    575,95 kr.

    This carefully researched history draws on archival sources as well as a wealth of new interviews with on-the-ground activists, political actors, international figures, and others to move beyond the narratives both the German and American varieties that have dominated the historical memory of German reunification.

  • - Approaches to Oral History in Latin America, Portugal, and Spain
     
    528,95 kr.

    Eleven essays, originally written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, coalesce around major themes that have long concerned oral historians and social scientists: collective memories of conflictive national pasts, subjectivity in re/framing social identities, and visual and performative re/presentations of identity and public memory.

  • - From Bialystok to Shanghai to the Promised Land, an Oral History
    af Samuel Iwry
    312,95 kr.

    Like many European Jews, Sam Iwry began his life in Poland, but at the age of ten fled with his family to Russia before World War I. This oral history sheds light on Jewish life in Eastern Europe during the inter-war period, the search for a safe haven from Nazis and Soviets, daily life in the Shanghai ghetto, and emigration to America.

  • - African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond
    af D'Ann R. Penner & Keith C. Ferdinand
    557,95 - 561,95 kr.

    Overcoming Katrina tells the stories of 27 New Orleanians as they fought to survive Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Overcoming approaches the question of why New Orleans matters, from perspectives of the individuals who lived, loved, worked, and celebrated life and death there prior to being scattered across the country by Hurricane Katrina.

  • - Conversations between Two Daughters of China's Revolution
    af Ma Xiaodong & Weili Ye
    1.076,95 - 1.161,95 kr.

    In a conversational style and in chronological sequence, Ye Weili and Ma Xiaodong recount their earlier lives in China from the 1950s to the 1980s, a particularly eventful period that included the catastrophic Cultural Revolution.

  • - Stories of Daily Life, Upheaval, and Escape from Modern Babylon
    af Dennis Shasha, Tamar Morad & Robert Shasha
    322,95 kr.

    Iraq's Last Jews is a collection of first-person accounts by Jews about their lives in Iraq's once-vibrant, 2500 year-old Jewish community and about the disappearance of that community in the middle of the 20th century.

  • - An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to the Pentagon
    af Carl Mirra
    556,95 - 557,95 kr.

    This book is the first comprehensive oral history of the Iraq War. It presents the raw and vivid testimonies and recollections from combat veterans, family members, conscientious objectors, Bush administration officials, Iraqi leaders, and many others, forming a gripping and moving portrait of the war.

  • - Stories of Escape from the Third Reich
    af Steve Hochstadt
    335,95 - 407,95 kr.

    Of the 400,000 German-speaking Jews that escaped the Third Reich, about 16,000 ended up in Shanghai, China. This groundbreaking volume gathers 20 years of interviews with over 100 former Shanghai refugees. It offers a moving collective portrait of courage, culture shock, persistence, and enduring hope in the face of unimaginable hardships.

  • - Worker Narratives of Plant Closings and Job Loss
    af J. Hart & T. K'Meyer
    556,95 kr.

    In this book, workers displaced by plant closings in Louisville, Kentucky tell their stories, emphasizing their agency, demanding respect for their skill, casting judgment on business and government for not showing that respect, and revealing a sense of alienation resulting from violation of their values and trust.

  • - Oral Histories of the American Past, 1865-Present
    af Laurie Mercier & Sue Armitage
    296,95 kr.

    This oral history reader, designed to supplement texts on the second half of the U.S. history survey, features the words of ordinary people who describe how they shaped, viewed, and remembered American history.

  • - African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South
    af Anne M. Valk & Leslie Brown
    458,95 kr.

    Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South.

  • - The Politics of History
    af Erin Jessee
    396,95 kr.

    Using life history and thematic interviews, the author brings the narratives of officials, survivors, returnees, perpetrators, and others whose lives have been intimately affected by genocide into conversation with scholarly studies of the Rwandan genocide, and Rwandan history more generally.

  • - Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile
    af Jehanne M. Gheith & Katherine R. Jolluck
    320,95 kr.

    In this volume, the powerful voices of Gulag survivors become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories, rather than written memoirs.

  • - Muslims' Stories of Detention and Deportation in America after 9/11
    af Irum Shiekh
    301,95 kr.

    Immigrants from Pakistan, Egypt, India, and Palestine who were racially profiled and detained following the September 11 attacks tell their personal stories in a collection which explores themes of transnationalism, racialization, and the global war on terror, and explains the human cost of suspending civil liberties after a wartime emergency.

  • - Memories and Fragments
     
    558,95 kr.

    Using the presence of the past as a point of departure, this books explores three critical themes in Southeast Asian oral history: the relationship between oral history and official histories produced by nation-states; the nature of memories of violence; and intersections between oral history, oral tradition, and heritage discourses.

  • - Women's Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance
    af Desiree Hellegers
    559,95 - 597,95 kr.

    This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and homelessness and highlighting the physical stresses. It also challenges liberal myths about homeless people, and homeless women in particular.

  • - Voice, Access, and Engagement
    af Douglas A. Boyd & Mary A. Larson
    551,95 - 780,95 kr.

    Exploring the developments that have occurred in the practice of oral history since digital audio and video became viable, this book explores various groundbreaking projects in the history of digital oral history, distilling the insights of pioneers in the field and applying them to the constantly changing electronic landscape of today.

  • - Dancing Bodies, Written Texts, and Oral Testimonials of Women in the Wake of an Industrial Disaster
    af S. Mukherjee
    556,95 kr.

    On December 2-3, 1984, India witnessed arguably the world s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, which continues to this day as an economic, medical, environmental, and political disaster.

  • - Toward an Ethnography of Practice
     
    661,95 kr.

    Because oral history interviews are personal interactions between human beings, they rarely conform to a methodological ideal. These reflections from oral historians provide honest and rigorous analyses of actual oral history practice that address the complexities of a human-centered methodology.

  • - Toward an Ethnography of Practice
     
    655,95 kr.

    Because oral history interviews are personal interactions between human beings, they rarely conform to a methodological ideal. These reflections from oral historians provide honest and rigorous analyses of actual oral history practice that address the complexities of a human-centered methodology.

  • - John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the African American Song Tradition
    af Michael K. Honey
    601,95 - 796,95 kr.

    Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition.

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    319,95 kr.

    This book collects original research essays to explore the diverse uses of photographs and photography in oral history, from the use of photos as memory triggers to their deployment in the telling of life stories. The book's contributors include both oral historians and photography scholars and critics.

  • - Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China
    af Perry Link & Rowena Xiaoqing He
    599,95 - 805,95 kr.

    Tracing the lives of three exiled student leaders over two continents before and after the 1989 Tiananmen Uprising, this fascinating oral history explores how their political ideals were shaped by institutionalized education and social movements in China, led to action and punishment, and were revised under the challenges of exile.

  • - Memories of the Struggle toward School Integration in Rural North Carolina
    af K. Willink
    557,95 kr.

    This study collects the oral histories of residents of a single county in North Carolina who lived through the consequences of desegregation, examining the complex social and historical constructions of racial difference in education.

  • - Conversations with Julian Bond
    af Phyllis Leffler
    565,95 - 905,95 kr.

    Drawing on a wealth of oral interviews, Conversations on Black Leadership uses the lives of prominent African Americans to trace the contours of Black leadership in America. Included here are fascinating accounts from a wide variety of figures such as John Lewis, Clarence Thomas, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Angela Davis, Amiri Baraka, and many more.