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58 produkter
The Firm
The Inside Story of the Stasi
Av Gary Bruce
Inbunden, 2010
1068 kr
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Based on previously classified documents and on interviews with former secret police officers and ordinary citizens, The Firm is the first comprehensive history of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, at the grassroots level. Focusing on Gransee and Perleberg, two East German districts located …
Freedom Flyers
The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
Av J. Todd Moye
Häftad, 2012
293 kr
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In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen--the country's first African American military pilots--historian J. Todd Moye captures the challenges and triumphs of these brave aviators in their own words, drawing on more than 800 interviews recorded for the National Park Service's Tuskegee …
A Guide to Oral History and the Law
Inbunden, 2014
2139 kr
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According to the Oral History Association, the term oral history refers to "a method of recording and preserving oral testimony" which results in a verbal document that is "made available in different forms to other users, researchers, and the public." Ordinarily such an academic process would seem …
When Sonia Met Boris
An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin
Inbunden, 2017
858 kr
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Russian-speaking Jews from the former Soviet Union are a peculiarity in the Jewish world. After decades living in a repressive, nominally atheistic state, these Jews did manage to retain a strong sense of Jewish identity--but one that was almost completely divorced from Judaism. Today, more than …
Lady Bird Johnson
An Oral History
Häftad, 2015
301 kr
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Over a span of eighteen years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded forty-seven oral history interviews with Michael Gillette and his colleagues. These conversations, just released in 2011, form the heart of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, an intimate story of a shy young country girl's transformation …
Narrating South Asian Partition
Oral History, Literature, Cinema
Inbunden, 2019
1752 kr
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The history of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition is one of separation: a country and people newly divided. However, in telling this story, Anindya Raychaudhuri, the son of a partition participant, looks to unity, joining for the first time the public and private memory narratives of this pivotal …
Dedicated to God
An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns
Av Abbie Reese
Häftad, 2016
345 kr
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As a subculture, cloistered monastic nuns live hidden from public view by choice. Once a woman joins the cloister and makes final vows, she is almost never seen and her voice is not heard; her story is essentially nonexistent in the historical record and collective, public history.From interviews …
Inside the Clinton White House
An Oral History
Inbunden, 2016
422 kr
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The inner life of every White House is veiled in mystery. Only a select few partake in the sensitive discussions of the Oval Office or the casual banter about high policy and low politics conducted over the engine roar of Air Force One. The privilege of the president's confidence depends on the …
Fly Until You Die
An Oral History of Hmong Pilots in the Vietnam War
Inbunden, 2019
1559 kr
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During the Vietnam War, the US Air Force secretly trained pilots from Laos, skirting Lao neutrality in order to bolster the Royal Lao Air Force and their own war efforts. Beginning in 1964, this covert project, "Water Pump," operated out of Udorn Airbase in Thailand with the support of the CIA. …
Edward M. Kennedy
An Oral History
Inbunden, 2019
438 kr
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For Kennedy devotees, as well as readers unfamiliar with the "lion of the Senate," this book presents the compelling story of Edward Kennedy's unexpected rise to become one of the most consequential legislators in American history and a passionate defender of progressive values, achieving …
Voices of Guinness
An Oral History of the Park Royal Brewery
Inbunden, 2019
899 kr
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Imagine a workplace where workers enjoyed a well-paid job for life, one where they could start their day with a pint of stout and a smoke, and enjoy free meals in silver service canteens and restaurants. During their breaks they could explore acres of parkland planted with hundreds of trees and …
Sisterhood and After
An Oral History of the UK Women's Liberation Movement, 1968-present
Inbunden, 2019
565 kr
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This ground-breaking history of the UK Women's Liberation Movement shows why and how feminism's 'second wave' mobilized to demand not just equality but social and gender transformation.Oral history testimonies power the work, tracing the arc of a feminist life from 1950s girlhoods to late life …
The Land Speaks
New Voices at the Intersection of Oral and Environmental History
Inbunden, 2018
2370 kr
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The Land Speaks explores the intersection of two vibrant fields, oral history and environmental studies. Ranging across farm and forest, city and wilderness, river and desert, this collection of fourteen oral histories gives voice to nature and the stories it has to tell. These essays consider …
The Land Speaks
New Voices at the Intersection of Oral and Environmental History
Av Debbie Lee, Kathryn Newfont m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
846 kr
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The Land Speaks explores the intersection of two vibrant fields, oral history and environmental studies. Ranging across farm and forest, city and wilderness, river and desert, this collection of fourteen oral histories gives voice to nature and the stories it has to tell. These essays consider …
The Voice of the Past
Oral History
Inbunden, 2017
2989 kr
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Oral history gives history back to the people in their own words. And in giving a past, it also helps them towards a future of their own making. Oral history and life stories help to create a truer picture of the past and the changing present, documenting the lives and feelings of all kinds of …
Rethinking Oral History and Tradition
An Indigenous Perspective
Inbunden, 2019
1358 kr
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Indigenous peoples have our own ways of defining oral history. For many, oral sources are shaped and disseminated in multiple forms that are more culturally textured than just standard interview recordings. For others, indigenous oral histories are not merely fanciful or puerile myths or …
Oral History and the Environment
Global Perspectives on Climate, Connection, and Catastrophe
Av Stephen M. Sloan, Mark Cave m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1512 kr
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As uncontrolled development forces crises in the natural world, deeply ingrained human connections with the earth are changing. Oral history's proven ability to explore issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality make it a uniquely effective methodology for bringing in new perspectives …
Oral History and the Environment
Global Perspectives on Climate, Connection, and Catastrophe
Av Stephen M. Sloan, Mark Cave m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
390 kr
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As uncontrolled development forces crises in the natural world, deeply ingrained human connections with the earth are changing. Oral history's proven ability to explore issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality make it a uniquely effective methodology for bringing in new perspectives …
Inside the Clinton White House
An Oral History
Häftad, 2018
301 kr
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President Bill Clinton led one of the most influential and consequential White House tenures in recent memory. However, because of the office's traditional climate of confidentiality, many details of his behind-the-scenes activities have remained absent from the written record. How did the …
Pioneers and Partisans
An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia
Av Anika Walke
Häftad, 2018
638 kr
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The Nazi regime and local collaborators killed 800,000 Belorussian Jews, many of them parents or relatives of young Jews who survived the war. Thousands of young girls and boys were thus orphaned and struggled for survival on their own. This book is the first systematic account of young Soviet …
Sound Writing
Voices, Authors, and Readers of Oral History
Inbunden, 2023
1583 kr
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The concept that oral history can give voice to people or allow "hidden voices" to become part of history is one of its most celebrated achievements. However, the standard practice of transcribing or summarizing interviews has meant that oral historians have had to grapple with questions of how to …
Singing Out
An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals
Av David King Dunaway, Molly Beer
Inbunden, 2010
827 kr
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Intimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, Singing Out offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 1976 to 2006, this captivating story spans seven decades and cuts across a wide swath of generations and …
Launching the War on Poverty
An Oral History
Häftad, 2010
559 kr
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The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 was one of the great legislative triumphs of Lyndon Johnson's presidency. In Launching the War on Poverty, forty-nine veterans of this unprecedented legislative effort tell their stories, offering a fascinating inside look at how Community Action, Head Start, …
Approaching an Auschwitz Survivor
Holocaust Testimony and its Transformations
Inbunden, 2009
1016 kr
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Among sources on the Holocaust, survivor testimonies are the least replaceable and most complex, reflecting both the personality of the narrator and the conditions and perceptions prevailing at the time of narration. Scholarship aims to challenge memory and fill its gaps. At the same time, scholars …
The Wonder of Their Voices
The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder
Av Alan Rosen
Inbunden, 2010
2328 kr
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Over the last several decades, videotestimony with aging Holocaust survivors has brought these witnesses into the limelight. Yet the success of these projects has made it seem that little survivor testimony took place in earlier years. In truth, thousands of survivors began to recount their …
Velvet Revolutions
An Oral History of Czech Society
Av Miroslav Vanek, Pavel Mücke
Häftad, 2021
728 kr
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The Velvet Revolution in November 1989 brought about the collapse of the authoritarian communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia, marking the beginning of the country's journey towards democracy. Though members of the elite have spoken about the transition to democracy, the experiences of …
When Sonia Met Boris
An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin
Häftad, 2021
380 kr
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Russian-speaking Jews from the former Soviet Union are a peculiarity in the Jewish world. After decades living in a repressive, nominally atheistic state, these Jews did manage to retain a strong sense of Jewish identity--but one that was almost completely divorced from Judaism. Today, more than …
Edward M. Kennedy
An Oral History
Häftad, 2022
361 kr
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For Kennedy devotees, as well as readers unfamiliar with the "lion of the Senate", this book presents the compelling story of Edward Kennedy's unexpected rise to become one of the most consequential legislators in American history and a passionate defender of progressive values, achieving …
Sisterhood and After
An Oral History of the UK Women's Liberation Movement, 1968-present
Häftad, 2021
369 kr
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This ground-breaking history of the UK Women's Liberation Movement shows why and how feminism's 'second wave' mobilized to demand not just equality but social and gender transformation.Oral history testimonies power the work, tracing the arc of a feminist life from 1950s girlhoods to late life …
Escape to Miami
An Oral History of the Cuban Rafter Crisis
Häftad, 2022
266 kr
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While the Naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba is well-known for its infamous prison camp, few people are aware of its prior use as an immigrant detention center for Haitian and Cuban refugees. Beginning in August 1994, the United States government declared that thousands of Cubans who had launched …
