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Book SynopsisStarting from its original conception and design by the owners and naval architects at the White Star Line through construction at Harland and Wolff's shipyards in Belfast, Nick Barratt explores the pre-history of the Titanic. He examines the aspirations of the owners, the realities of construction and the anticipation of the first sea-tests, revealing that the seeds of disaster were sown by the failure to implement sealed bulkheads - for which the original plans are now available. Barratt then looks at what it was like to embark on the Titanic's maiden voyage in April 1912. The lives of various passengers are examined in more detail, from the first class aristocrats enjoying all the trappings of privilege, to the families in third-class and steerage who simply sought to leave Britain for a better life in America. Similarly, the stories of representatives from the White Star Line who were present, as well as members of the crew, are told in their own words to give a very different perspective of the voyage.Finally, the book examines the disaster itself, when Titanic struck the iceberg on 14 April and sunk hours later. Survivors from passengers and crew explain what happened, taking you back in time to the full horror of that freezing Atlantic night when up to 1,520 people perished. The tragedy is also examined from the official boards of enquiry, and its aftermath placed in a historic context - the damage to British prestige and pride, and the changes to maritime law to ensure such an event never took place again. The book concludes by looking at the impact on those who escaped, and what became of them in the ensuing years; and includes the words of the last living survivor, Millvina Dean.Trade ReviewA splendid collection of eye-witness accounts by those who built, sailed and survived the Titanic. Fascinating and heart-rending * Saul David *

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Book SynopsisDoing Oral History: A Practical Guide is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community. Over the past decades, the development of digital audio and video recording technology has continued to alter the practice of oral history, making it even easier to produce quality recordings and to disseminate them on the Internet. This basic manual offers detailed advice on setting up an oral history project, conducting interviews, making video recordings, preserving oral history collections in archives and libraries, and teaching and presenting oral history.Using the existing Q&A format, the third edition asks new questions and augments previous answers with new material, particularly in these areas:1. Technology: As before, the book avoids recommending specific equipment, but weighs the merits of the types of technology available for audio and video recording, transcription, preservation, and dissemination. Information about web sites is expanded, and more discussion is provided about how other oral history projects have posted their interviews online. 2. Teaching: The new edition addresses the use of oral history in online teaching. It also expands the discussion of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) with the latest information about compliance issues.3. Presentation: Once interviews have been conducted, there are many opportunities for creative presentation. There is much new material available on innovative forms of presentation developed over the last decade, including interpretive dance and other public performances.4. Legal considerations: The recent Boston College case, in which the courts have ruled that Irish police should have access to sealed oral history transcripts, has re-focused attention on the problems of protecting donor restrictions. The new edition offers case studies from the past decade.5. Theory and Memory: As a beginner''s manual, Doing Oral History has not dealt extensively with theoretical issues, on the grounds that these emerge best from practice. But the third edition includes the latest thinking about memory and provides a sample of some of the theoretical issues surrounding oral sources. It will include examples of increased studies into catastrophe and trauma, and the special considerations these have generated for interviewers.6. Internationalism: Perhaps the biggest development in the past decade has been the spreading of oral history around the world, facilitated in part by the International Oral History Association. New oral history projects have developed in areas that have undergone social and political upheavals, where the traditional archives reflect the old regimes, particularly in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The third edition includes many more references to non-U.S. projects that will still be relevant to an American audience. These changes make the third edition of Doing Oral History an even more useful tool for beginners, teachers, archivists, and all those oral history managers who have inherited older collections that must be converted to the latest technology.Trade ReviewDonald Ritchie...has produced an invaluable manual that will serve research scholars and teachers equally well. ... Without pretension, Doing Oral History fulfills the promise touted on the jacket cover: to provide 'practical advice and reasonable explanations for anyone.' ... [A] significant contribution to making oral history accessible to a wide audience of potential users. * The History Teacher *Written in a friendly question-and-answer format, this book gives advice for preparing, setting up, and conducting an interview. ... Ritchie's step-by-step guide will help you preserve your family's experiences for generations to come. * Family Tree *Ritchie has laid out the fundamentals to guide novices and given long-term practitioners material that will help them re-evaluate their own approaches. This book needs to be on every oral historian's shelf. * Northwest Oral History Association *This book is not a dustcatcher. It is destined to be dog-eared and full of underlined passages, from the first time you pick it up. In a user-friendly question-and-answer format, much like an oral history interview, Don Ritchie has packed into one modest volume enough practical advice to get an oral history project off the ground, help a novice oral historian conduct a responsible interview, and challenge more experienced oral historians, librarians, and archivists who might use oral history to think broadly about the impact of what they are doing. * Mid-Atlantic Archivist *[The] standard work for many years to come. * Public Historian *Simple, straightforward, and effective. ... [A] stimulating and formidable work...it is indeed a guide to practice, but it is much more: it is a stepping-off point to the increasingly large universe that oral history pracititioners occupy. * Oral History Review *[An] all-purpose guide to the entire range of the oral history process...this volume provides extensive background on oral history and its relation to the larger realm of historical inquiry, discusses how oral history interviewing compares with journalistic and other interviewing techniques, and considers the workings of the human memory. * American Archivist *A definitive guide that provides all the practical advice and explanations needed to turn your ideas and goals into action and to create recordings that illuminate the human experience for generations to come. Definitely recommended. * The Ultimate Puzzle: Family Research *A comprehensive handbook on the theory, methods, and practice of oral history, based on work by the Oral History Association to revise its professional standards and principles. * Book News, Inc. *[A] comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the art of oral history. * Oral History in New Zealand *offers a practical overview of the nuts and bolts of doing oral history, from setting up a project and conducting interviews to its uses in research and writing ... Ritchie's depth of experience and straightforward approach anticipate the vast majority of questions likely to be asked by those embarking on oral history projects. * Gail Dubrow, American Historical Review *The third edition of Doing Oral History presents a wealth of information in a readable and inviting form ... a welcome update to a classic publication. * Barbara W. Sommer, Oral History Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction and Acknowledgments ; Chapter 1. An Oral History of Our Time ; Memory and Oral History ; Public History and Oral History ; Chapter 2. Setting Up An Oral History Project ; Funding and Staffing ; Equipment ; Processing ; Legal Concerns ; Archiving and the Internet ; Chapter 3. Conducting Interviews ; Preparing for the Interview ; Setting up the Interview ; Conducting the Interview ; Concluding the Interview ; Chapter 4. Using Oral History for Research ; Oral Evidence ; Theory ; Publishing Oral History ; Chapter 5. Videotaping Oral History ; Setting and Equipment ; Processing and Preserving Video Recordings ; Video Documentaries, Exhibits, and the Internet ; Chapter 6. Preserving Oral History in Archives and Libraries ; Managing Oral History Collections ; Sound Recordings ; Digital Oral Archives ; Donated Interviews ; Legal Considerations ; Public Outreach ; Chapter 7. Teaching Oral History ; Oral History in Elementary and Secondary Schools ; Oral History in Undergraduate and Graduate Education ; Institutional Review Boards ; Chapter 8. Presenting Oral History ; Oral History Web Sites ; Community History ; Family Interviewing ; Therapeutic Uses of Oral History ; Museum Exhibits ; Radio and Television ; Performance ; Appendix 1: Best Practices of the Oral History Association. ; Appendix 2: Sample Legal Release Forms ; Notes and References ; Bibliography ; Internet Resources ; Index

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Book SynopsisCosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875, offers an alternative interpretation of the 175 years leading up to the formal colonization of Africa by Europeans. In this brief and affordable text, author and series editor Trevor R. Getz demonstrates how Africans pursued lives, constructed social settings, forged trading links, and imagined worlds that were sophisticated, flexible, and well adapted to the increasingly global and fast-paced interactions of this period. Getz''s interpretation of a cosmopolitan Africa is based on careful reading of Africans'' oral histories and traditions, written documents, and images of or from the eighteenth century. Examining this time period from both social and cultural perspectives, Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875, helps students to re-envision African societies in the time before colonization.Table of ContentsSeries Introduction ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Ordering their worlds ; A Place to begin ; Spirit power and state power in Burganda ; Xhosa worlds: homestad, neighborhood, kingdom, ancestors ; Matriclans and entrepreneurs in the making of the Asante state ; Titles and lineages in Igbo-speaking societies ; Imperial Tunis ; Reigning in greed and anarchy in BaKongo and Jaga state and society ; Feature: Beatriz of Saint Anthony ; Chapter 2: Global Africa in an oceanic era ; An Oceanic era ; Mediterranean Africa ; Atlantic Africa ; Indian Ocean Africa ; Feature: The Chronicles of Pate and 19th century Swahili identity ; Chapter 3: Spiritual belief and practice in cosmopolitan Africa ; African <"world>" and African <"traditional>" religions ; African Islam in the eighteenth century ; African Christianity and Protestant evangelism ; Feature: The Xhosa Cattle-Killing ; Chapter 4: African economies and the industrial revolution ; Production and productivity in late eighteenth century Africa ; Africans and the industrial revolution ; Settlers, peasants, and plantations ; Feature: Muhammad Ali's Egypt ; Chapter 5: Africans write back ; Men and women in the middle? ; Egyptian intellectuals on France and Islam ; The Abbe Boilat ; James Africanus Horton ; The <"educated men>" of the Fante Confederation ; Jan Tzatzoe in Britain ; Towards colonialism?

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Book SynopsisMade famous in the 1976 documentary Harlan County USA, this pocket of Appalachian coal country has been home to generations of miners--and to some of the most bitter labor battles of the 20th century. It has also produced a rich tradition of protest songs and a wealth of fascinating culture and custom that has remained largely undiscovered by outsiders, until now.They Say in Harlan County is not a book about coal miners so much as a dialogue in which more than 150 Harlan County women and men tell the story of their region, from pioneer times through the dramatic strikes of the 1930s and ''70s, up to the present. Alessandro Portelli draws on 25 years of original interviews to take readers into the mines and inside the lives of those who work, suffer, and often die in them--from black lung, falling rock, suffocation, or simply from work that can be literally backbreaking. The book is structured as a vivid montage of all these voices--stoic, outraged, grief-stricken, defiant--skillfully interwoven with documents from archives, newspapers, literary works, and the author''s own participating and critical voice. Portelli uncovers the whole history and memory of the United States in this one symbolic place, through settlement, civil war, slavery, industrialization, immigration, labor conflict, technological change, migration, strip mining, environmental and social crises, and resistance. And as hot-button issues like mountain-top removal and the use of clean coal continue to hit the news, the history of Harlan County--especially as seen through the eyes of those who lived it--is becoming increasingly important. With rare emotional immediacy, gripping narratives, and unforgettable characters, They Say in Harlan County tells the real story of a culture, the resilience of its people, and the human costs of coal mining.Trade ReviewThey Say in Harlan County is a multi-vocal exploration of three centuries of Harlan County history: foundation narratives of eighteenth century conquest and pioneer settlement through tales of the Civil War and its aftermath of industrialization, vivid recollections of racial violence and labor struggles, stories of the mid-twentieth century devastation of the region by strip-mining, outmigration, the War on Poverty, the corruption of the United Mine Worker leadership, and the struggle over compensation for black lung. * Western Folklore *By any standards, this is a remarkable and compelling work. * J. D. A. Widdowson, Centre for English Traditional Heritage *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Harlan County, 1964-2007: A love story ; Chapter 1: The Bear and the Sycamore Tree ; Chapter 2: Of Hardship and Love ; Chapter 3: Wars and Peace ; Chapter 4: These Signs Shall Follow Them ; Chapter 5: Flush Times and Rough Times ; Chapter 6: A Space of Their Own ; Chapter 7: Miner's Life ; Chapter 8: Identities ; Chapter 9: No Neutrals there ; Chapter 10: God, Guns, and Guts ; Chapter 11: Harlan on Our Minds ; Chapter 12: Exodus ; Chapter 13: The Other America ; Chapter 14: Democracy and the Mines ; Chapter 15: Staying Alive ; People I Owe ; Notes ; The Narrators ; Index

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Book SynopsisTheir War Stories, along with the stories of 13 other students in a Western Civilization class, are chronicled here by the teacher who earned their respect and trust while tracing the paths that brought them together behind the walls of a maximum security prison.Americans are vitally concerned about crime.Table of ContentsInside the Gulag Rashid Strangers Delloyd X The Power of the Word "Gregory" Ethiop Jeffrey History Lessons Mazar Other Voices The System Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThese 52 narratives feature the tales of three 19th-century Ojibwa storytellers - Charles and Charlotte Kawbawgam and Jacques LePique. Collected by Homer H. Kidder, the stories present a fresh view of an early period of Ojibwa thought and way of life in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

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Book SynopsisThe stories of Kaua'i's ruling chiefs were passed from generation to generation in songs and narratives recited by trained storytellers. Genealogical references to the chiefs are interspersed with legends of sea voyages, wars, heroes and romances in this resource book.

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Book SynopsisWhen Namibia gained its independence in 1990 after 23 years of war, most of the eleven Namibians whose life histories make up this book were in their mid-thirties. To that point their whole adult lives had been lived in the struggle, more than half of them in exile. Few of them owned anything. None held prominent jobs. Most had endured hardship, hunger, sickness and fear, and witnessed terrible cruelty and suffering. All had lost family members or friends. Yet their outlook was triumphant and optimistic and their stories are full of enthusiasm, energy, determination and purpose. When you read their stories you are not surprised that they have since become well known in their chosen fields. Yet when they told these stories most of them were not well known. They just happened to be people we came to know and like in the course of our work (Brown as a journalist and development consultant, Leys as a social science researcher) and whom we asked if they would tell us their stories. They telTable of ContentsIN

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Table of ContentsPrehistory: T&G Meets FMC; The Birth of 1107; The PTA; Continuous Conflict; The Seventies: From Social Contract to "Syndicalism"; The Eighties: From New Technology to "Employee Involvement"; The Nineties: "Flexibility", Equal Opportunities and the Struggle for Security; The Noughties: End of an Era; All Over?

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Book SynopsisDiscover the world of Irish folklore with Kevin Danaher''s book, ''In Ireland Long Ago.'' This narrative provides a look into traditional Irish folk life, from the comfort of the hearth to the stories and gossip that fill it, alongside the food and drink that define Irish tradition.This book explores the lifestyle of a past generation in Ireland, highlighting daily life and customs. It includes descriptions of household items, agricultural tools, and stories like that of the water diviner, bringing Irish folklore to life.You''ll read about intense faction fights, Irish weddings, and rituals for the departed. This volume isn''t just a book; it''s a journey into Irish folk life and its stories and traditions.''In Ireland Long Ago'' has been informing and surprising readers for over thirty years and is a significant book in Irish folklore literature. It offers an exploration of Irish heritage, culture, and folklore.With Danaher''s storytelling and attention to detail, ''In Ireland Long Ago'' is a valuable addition to your collection of Irish folklore books. The narratives transport you to a different time, showcasing Ireland''s folklore-filled past.Table of ContentsBy Way of Introduction Thatch and Whitewash The Hearth The Light and the Fire Pots and Pans What did they Eat? Our Daily Bread What did they Drink? Mountain Dew Tobacco What did they Wear? Plough and Spade The Flail The Dairy Carrying Things Travel by Water Weighing and Measuring The Water Diviner The Forge ‘Come all ye Gallant Irishmen ...' The Faction Fighters Haste to the Wedding The Hedge School The Wake The Funeral In Memory of the Dead

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Book SynopsisThe very purpose of history is to gather up what is about to be lost for ever.Between 500,000 to 2 million people died in the Cultural Revolution. Yet a silence remains as to why. Over eleven years in Mao’s China, an all-out assault on ‘class enemies’ took place. Teenagers smashed their teachers’ skulls. Doctors were tortured in jail as foreign spies. Ordinary people condemned ‘counter-revolutionaries’ to execution - and then went home and ate their dinner. This was less than fifty years ago. But the victims are being forgotten already. Wang Youqin unmasks the true brutality of the Cultural Revolution. Documenting the deaths of over six hundred individuals, Victims of the Cultural Revolution calls on us to remember the evil ideological fanaticism wreaks and pays tribute to all those who suffered.Trade Review'Carefully composed and captivating... May Wang Youqin’s monumental book reach beyond the narrow confines of the ivory tower and attract the many readers it so obviously deserves.' -- Frank Dikötter, TLS'In 1966, Wang was a schoolgirl who witnessed the hounding of Bian Zhongyun. Her response was to gather oral histories of the period, which are published . . . as Victims of the Cultural Revolution in a lucid translation by Stacy Mosher. Her book is . . a chronicle of deaths until now untold. Her teacher’s death is described, but so are countless others, mostly far less high-profile, like the 60-year-old Li Jingpo, who worked at the elite Jingshan high school in Beijing and was killed in August 1966. But he was not a teacher or administrator: he was just the doorman. Being a bona fide proletarian didn’t save him from the students who used to call him “Uncle Li”. Wang’s account of what happened during one of China’s darkest moments is a powerful companion to [Tania] Branigan’s compelling account of why it still haunts the very different country of today.' -- Rana Mitter, Guardian‘I find this book to have enormous historical value, and believe it will serve as a foundation for future historians carrying out research into the political, educational, and social history of this period.’ -- Yu Ying-shih, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University‘Wang Youqin is one of a number of Chinese-born scholars in the United States who have been undertaking the Cultural Revolution research that cannot be done in China. In this book, Professor Wang takes a very important step in the direction of making her fellow Chinese confront their recent past.’ -- Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and former Director of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University‘Insightful… Mosher has abbreviated the work to great effect, taking away some of its encyclopedic nature and duplicative material while also adding new information that Wang collected in the intervening 20 years… [the book] gives a sense of the enduring nightmare of this period… The broader significance of this book and these developments is that the Chinese Communist Party has not been able to erase or control history the way it would like. Overseas scholars like Wang now feed into a broad discussion in China, challenging the Chinese Communist Party on its most sacred ground: its control of history.’ -- The China Project

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Book SynopsisHelen O'Shea is Tutor in British social and political history at the University of Strathclyde and the University of Edinburgh. She completed her PhD in Modern History at the University of Edinburgh in 2009.Table of ContentsLong Shadows 1. The Evolution of Enosis and the Irish Interaction with British Cyprus, 1878-1954 i. ‘Accidental’ Irishmen or Erin’s ‘Gallant Sons’? The Early Years of ‘British’ Cyprus ii. Growing Analogies: T.P. O’Connor, Michael Collins and ‘British Fairplay’ in Cyprus iii. ‘Enosis and Only Enosis’: The 1931 Riots, World War II and the Greek Civil War Unlearned Lessons 2. The Irish Press Response to the Cyprus Emergency: A Comparative Analysis i. Hesitant Beginnings: Irish Anti-communism and the Cyprus Question ii. Civil War Ghosts: Historical Constraints on Irish Press Opinion iii. Reflecting the National Synthesis? The Irish Times and the Cyprus Question 3. Insurgent Compatriots: Irish Republicanism and the EOKA Campaign i. A Marriage of Motives: Greek-Cypriot Nationalism and the National Student Council ii. The NSC and International Student Anti-colonialism in Dublin iii. ‘The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend’: The IRA-EOKA Joint Prison Escape Effort iv. The United Irishman Debate: Northern Ireland, Cyprus and the British Armed Forces Walking the Tightrope 4. The Irish Religious Response to Cypriot Self-Determination i. The Irish Catholic, the Standard, Irish Partition and the Cyprus Question ii. Cyprus, Communism and Irish Catholicism iii. Catholic-Greek Orthodox Tensions and the Cyprus Question iv. The Church of Ireland’s Relationship with the Greek Orthodox Church v. The Irish Churches’ Response to the Anti-Greek Pogroms and the Deportation of Archbishop Makarios 5. Irish UN Foreign Policy and the Cyprus Question i. The Second Inter-Party Government, UN Membership and the Cyprus Question ii. The Formation and Execution of Liam Cosgrave’s Irish UN Policy iii. ‘Bloody Mavericks?’ The Return of Fianna Fáil iv. Irish Partition, the Cyprus Question and the Thirteenth UN Session 6. Ireland, Cyprus and the Council of Europe i. James Crosbie, Seán MacBride and the Consultative Assembly ii. Crosbie, the European Court of Human Rights and the Greek Application 176/56 iii. MacBride, Makarios and Misconceptions iv. Friend or Foe? Britain, Ireland and the Greek Application 176/56 Hidden Histories 7. Ireland, the Colonial Legal Service and Emergency Legislation i. Chief Justice Sir Eric Hallinan ii. Nicosia Special Court: Charles Vesey Boyle and James Trainor iii. Chief Justice Sir Paget John Bourke iv. Attorney-General James Holmes Henry 8. The Irish Involvement in British Counter-Insurgency in Cyprus i. ‘Taking the Shilling’: Irish Recruitment to the British Army and Service in Cyprus ii. The Cyprus Emergency and the Anglo-Irish Military Tradition iii. The Irish Involvement in the Deportation of Archbishop Makarios iv. Ireland, Cyprus and the Suez Crisis v. Coercion and Conciliation in Cyprus: The Case of Michael Boyd Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFamily history is one of the most widely practiced forms of public history around the globe, especially in settler migrant nations like Australia and Canada. It empowers millions of researchers, linking the past to the present in powerful ways, transforming individuals' understandings of themselves and the world. This book examines the practice, meanings and impact of undertaking family history research for individuals and society more broadly. In this ground-breaking new book, Tanya Evans shows how family history fosters inter-generational and cross-cultural, religious and ethnic knowledge, how it shapes historical empathy and consciousness and combats social exclusion, producing active citizens. Evans draws on her extensive research on family history, including survey data, oral history interviews and focus groups undertaken with family historians in Australia, England and Canada collected since 2016. Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship reveals that family hiTrade ReviewEngaging with how family historians think, feel, collaborate and use the past in the present, Evans demonstrates the value of historical consciousness as a way of engaging with the world, and what such a perspective offers academic historians and the public alike. A remarkable achievement. * Katie Barclay, Associate Professor of History, The University of Adelaide, Australia *Tanya Evans is one of the world’s leading experts in family history and her new compelling new work situates research in this field at the meeting point of multiple exciting areas. Thoughtful, suggestive, generous and provocative though it is for scholars, most importantly Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship allows the family historians themselves to speak. * Jerome de Groot, Professor of Literature and Culture, Department of English, American Studies and Creative Writing, University of Manchester, UK *A fascinating book showing the often under-rated value of family history and family historians. Evans shows how family history epitomises the history from below approach, is key to understanding everyday, emotional, intimate historical worlds, and can be a radicalising force today, challenging inequalities, marginalisation and heteronormative visions of family life. * Laura King, Associate Professor in Modern British History, University of Leeds, UK *A bold, brilliant manifesto for family history, a truly democratised history whose millions of practitioners uncover for themselves the mythic nature of dominant national stories about the past. Evans powerfully argues that academics collaborate with family historians to innovate, to communicate the value of History, and to create active, global citizens. * Joanne Begiato, Professor in History, Oxford Brookes University, UK *

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Book SynopsisOn March 24, 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before.Trade Review"An extremely readable book. Portelli's work is to be valued not only for the light it casts on an important moment in the history of the Italian Resistance, but also for what it has to say about the history of the working classes in Rome." - Journal of Modern Italian Studies"Alessandro Portelli's The Order Has Been Carried Out is a major work by a scholar who has already helped to form the field of oral history. It is an intricate and compelling account of one of the central events of the German occupation of Rome during World War II, a partisan attack followed by a retaliatory Nazi massacre. Portelli manages to show how an historic event which is supposedly very well-known has in fact been largely hidden under layers of mystification during its constant telling and retelling." - Alexander Stille, author of Future of the Past "Alessandro Portelli, one of the most creative interpreters of oral testimony, explores again the complex intersection of memory, history, consciousness, and ideology, this time in the context of a Nazi massacre in the city of Rome in 1944. What is so startling about the work is the subtle and respectful manner in which the voices of those for whom the memory remains a deep personal scar is interwoven with those for whom the events are simply history. Only someone with the talents of Portelli could weave this kind of textured narrative that highlights the dual nature of the interviewing experience and the ways in which such testimony acts as a text within the continuing discourse about the human condition." - Ronald J. Grele, Former Director, Columbia University Oral History Research Office "This is a remarkable and innovative exploration at the intersection of personal experience, memory, and history. Portelli raises original and profound issues in theory and practice of history-making while letting participants speak their own minds. We join his subjects in reflecting on what it means when loved ones die at the wrong time and in the wrong place, when the causes for which they died fade from memory into history." - David Thelen, Indiana University "In contrast to his well-known volumes of collected essays, Alessandro Portelli's The Order Has Been Carried Out is a sustained book-length history-yet one that draws on and extends the qualities that have earned his earlier work international acclaim. Analytically, meditatively, passionately, and poetically, Portelli explores and documents, as fact and as memory, an episode critical to the history of Italy and World War II and to the postwar world right down to the present. Offering a movingly contemporary meditation on war, death, violence, and political struggle, The Order Has Been Carried Out reminds us that oral history matters because it demonstrates how the past and present necessarily, if not comfortably, live together within all of us." - Michael Frisch, Professor of History, University at Buffalo, State University of New York In this, his masterpiece, Alessandro Portelli restores memory, and with it oral history, to its proper role in reconstructing the meaning of historical events. Through the telling of a Nazi massacre in Rome during World War II, we have been given a universal story that will permanently change our way of thinking about our past and ourselves -as witnesses and actors in a world increasingly plagued by what Portelli calls the "symmetry" of violence and retribution. - Mary Marshall Clark, Director, the Columbia University Oral History Research OfficeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART I Places and Times Twenty Years: Fascism and Its Discontents Acts of War PART II Resistances Via Rasella The Massacre PART III A Strange Grief: Death, Mourning and Survival in Rome Politics of Memory Born Later

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Book SynopsisCounty Kerry saw many of the most vicious episodes in both the War of Independence and the Civil War. Many Republican survivors of these events were reluctant to speak about their experiences, even to their own family. However, they were willing to talk to Ernie O’Malley, who was the senior surviving Republican military commander from the period of those struggles. By transcribing O’Malley’s notebooks, where he recorded these interviews, Cormac O’Malley and Tim Horgan have made available previously unpublished first-hand accounts of Kerry’s role in the fight for independence. The interviews provide an unrivalled insight into this important period of Irish history, including controversial incidents such as the Ballyseedy massacre, the battle at Headford Junction and executions by the Free State forces.Trade Review'O'Malley's book provides a rare and illuminating window into the struggle as it happened on the ground.' -- Cahir O'Doherty

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Book SynopsisPerhaps more than any other war in the twentieth century, the Spanish Civil War was seen as a 'writers' war' - names such as Hemingway and Orwell spring to mind. But the women who went to Spain and wrote about it have often been forgotten. This anthology is part of efforts to redress the balance. It includes writing by women from Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand - and from unsung nurses and relief workers as well as internationally celebrated writers. Bringing together extracts from memoirs, letters, diaries and poems, this collection provides a moving overview of the Spanish Civil War from the perspective of women participants. Contributors include Emma Goldman, Lillian Hellman, Jessica Mitford and Sylvia Townsend Warner.Trade Review'the power of human reciprocity and a profound spiritual rejection of fascism shine through'Sheila Rowbotham'I was absorbed by the book A... its publication is a tribute to the noble role of many women in the Spanish war' Jack Jones

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the discourse by and about refugees and asylum seekers in relation to memory with a particular focus on the United Kingdom. A series of studies using different analytical approaches is undertaken, and together the studies shed light on this overlooked area of research. The studies or ‘facets’ presented in the monograph cover a range of contexts and discursive genres: a joint BBC/refugee-authored television documentary, refugees’ oral histories, creative life writing by asylum seekers, parliamentarians’ debates, a reworking of canonical texts and sites in a protest campaign, and non-fiction testimonies and fictional works by later generations of refugee background. The monograph introduces ‘facet methodology’ to memory studies, arguing that this approach could encourage interdisciplinary research in the field. Table of Contents1. A Dual Focus.2. Capturing Memories on Camera: Refugees and the BBC.3. Oral Histories: Voices of Kosovo in Manchester.4. 'Women Asylum Seekers Together' Life Writing.5. 'History' and Debating Refugees in Parliament.6. Memory Sites of the 'Refugee Tales' Project.7. Bhabha’s Temporality in Second and Third Generation Refugee/Immigrant Testimonies.8. Memory, Art and the Vietnamese Diaspora.9. Insights.

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Book SynopsisThis work covers tales from local people whose journey through life has taken them from their homeland to Britain as well as those who left the Southwest for a life overseas. Testimonies and reconstructions tell of child migrants, war brides and African immigrants amongst others.

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Book SynopsisAs much as 70 per cent of Essex is agricultural, and given its proximity to the capital it is not surprising that so many members of the Women’s Land Army found themselves on Essex farms and in Essex fields during the two world wars, doing their bit to make sure that Britain did not starve.

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Book SynopsisPresents the experiences of Scottish soldiers during the Second World War in their own words. This book includes descriptions ranging from the brutal hardships suffered by General Slim''s ''forgotten'' 14th Army as it fought its way through Burma to the large scale onslaught of the D-Day landings to the deprivations of the Siege of Malta.

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Book SynopsisOUR LIVERPOOL is an oral history about the real Liverpool - about the city before its slick transformation to European City of Culture and about the spirit that remains at its heart. Here, at last, is Liverpool''s grievous and glorious past. And here, through the people''s voices, we find old Liverpool, without the gift-wrap. Itsstories pulsate with the rhythms of an alternately funny, flippant, belligerent, stubborn and warm heart, and they broadcast the values of a community, which are the city''s true legacy to the modern world. Piers Dudgeon has listened to dozens of people who remember the city as it was, and who have lived through its many changes. They talk of childhood and education, of work and entertainment, of family, community values, health, politics, religion and music. Their stories will make you laugh and cry. It is people''s own memories that make history real and this engrossing book captures them vividly.Trade Review'These are stories told by those who remember life in Liverpool long before its transformation and vividly reveal its heart, humour, enduring strength and spirit' * Choice Magazine *'An enchanting book. A glorious triumph! I took it to bed the night I received it and wallowed for hours. A must for the book shelf' * Anne Robinson *It brings back clear memories of the Liverpool that was still there in my childhood but which has now disappeared' * Cherie Blair *'This is warts and all Liverpool... the heart of Liverpool, becasue the people's voice is at the centre of it' * Roger Phillips, BBC Radio Merseyside *

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Book SynopsisA visual investigation of the author's family history, The Longest Way Round is a construct of historical images woven together with new photographs. Uncovering a treasure trove of archive material not intended for the family album, Dorley-Brown's book presents a multi-layered alternative narrative for the course of events that shaped the late 20th century. Two Londoners born in 1920 embark on a series of journeys shaped by war, romance, and subsequent settlement in a seaside paradise. Unable and unwilling to recall their most traumatic experiences for their five children, a box of photographs, film negatives and letters was bequeathed to the youngest child ? a photographer. He attempts to form a new narrative with the archive, integrating his own pictures made in the UK and on travels through Europe that follow in the footsteps of his mother and father. During World War II Dorley-Brown's parents Peter and Brenda were not yet married, but had known each other as childhood friends. A

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. 'We Take the Very Unpopular Position of Giving Unconditional Support’: The Revolutionary Communist Party, the Labour movement, and Irish Republicanism, 1981-1986 2. ‘Fight Back with the Party of the Future’: Anti-Racism, Anti-Apartheid, and the Miners’ Strike, 1983-1986 3. Challenging ‘The State’s Repressive Apparatus’ and ‘Modern Malthusians’: AIDS, Moral Authoritarianism, and Environmentalism, 1986-1989 4. ‘The Empire Strikes Back’: The Collapse of the USSR, the Gulf War, Yugoslavia, and Ireland, 1989-1997 5. ‘Class Politics Cannot be Rebuilt, Regenerated or Rescued’: Reorientation, Dissolving the RCP, and Renewal, 1994-2000 6. ‘Encouraging the Unsayable to be said’ and the ‘Edgeless Blancmange of Modern Politics’: The Academy of Ideas and Spiked, 2000-2010 7. ‘We Need More Courage’: Condemning Censorship and Critiquing Identity Politics, 2010-2016 8. ‘Democracy: The Unfinished Revolution’: Brexit, Covid-19, and Black Lives Matter, 2016-2020 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis'An extraordinary book . . . vivid and heart-breaking'The Jewish ChronicleThrough the discovery of a precious friendship album which belonged to 12-year-old Alie, a Jewish schoolgirl in Amsterdam, Claudia Carli has traced and preserved the lives of an entire class of girls, most of whom did not survive the War. Alie and her friends are brought touchingly and vividly to life, along with their writings, in this extraordinary book. Their everyday hopes, pleasures and longings are offset by the constant fear of a knock on the door, a missing friend from class, a family member taken away. Alie and her mother were to die in Sobibor in 1943. Alie's sister Gretha survived Auschwitz and kept her promise to her sister to preserve the friendship album so long as she hoped to live. This book will sit alongside Anne Frank's diary and The Cutout Girl as a unique window into occupied Amsterdam and the girls who will now never be forgotten.Trade Review'An extraordinary book ... vivid and heart-breaking' * The Jewish Chronicle *

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Book SynopsisJohn Robb talks to many of those who cultivated the punk movement, weaving together their accounts to create a raw and unprecedented oral history of UK punk.

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Book SynopsisAfter a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society, and a village hollowed-out by emigration, neglect, and environmental despoliation. Combining family memoir, literary observation, and social commentary, Liang's by turns moving and shocking account became a bestselling book in China and brought her fame. Across China, many saw in Liang's remarkable and vivid interviews with family members and childhood acquaintances a mirror of their own families, and her observations about the way the greatest rural-to-urban migration of modern times has twisted the country resonated deeply. China in One Village tells the story of contemporary China through one clear-eyed observer, one family, and one village.Trade ReviewAn engaging read, with lively first-person narratives . it is in these stories that the universality of people's hopes, fears and frustrations really shines through. * New Internationalist *A lucid, accessible account of rural Chinese life, its stories worth far more than the statistics usually invoked in accounts of the pro­found change that has swept China. -- Jonathan Chatwin * South China Morning Post *A true literary sensation ... [Liang] pulls no punches. -- Ian Johnson * New York Times *Stunningly insightful ... What makes Liang's study so compelling is the way in which it offers a glimpse of a world in which personal problems ... exist on the same level as broader social and political problems -- Mark Rappolt * ArtReview *Overburdened grandparents, children who don't see their parents, workers straining to make a living in unwelcoming cities: Liang Hong's book, "China in One Village" (tr. Emily Goedde), gives a platform for these voices from the countryside. -- Mike Cormack * SupChina *The immediacy of China in One Village brings to life how China is changing in a way that more academic works cannot do. * rs21 *Fair-minded and sanguine ... one of the clearest narrative accounts of China's countryside available in English. -- Amy Hawkins * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisThe country is bankrupt, the gap between rich and poor is widening, the church has retreated from the inner cities, and even in the more affluent suburbs, many young people see the church as irrelevant - out of touch.

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Book SynopsisAn introduction about the Women's Land Army in the First and Second World Wars is followed by reminiscences, recorded recently by the editor, of ten ex-Land Girls. It is co-published by NMS Enterprises Limited - Publishing and the European Ethnological Research Centre (EERC) an independent unit within Celtic & Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh.Trade Review' ... The text combines first hand accounts with interviews held with the editor. The collection vividly brings to life the girls' personal experiences and highlights their daily work ... They also recalled their social lives, whist drives and dances ... The centre of the book has a lovely photographic section.' Scottish Farmer ' ... The introduction to the book draws together many of the key issues faced by the women ... A good amount of background material is provided, making it easy to picture the young women and their lives during the war. Were this not sufficient, two dozen images are also included from the Land Girls' own photograph collections showing them at work and relaxing in their off hours. ... an entertaining and information read that will appeal to a wide audience.' History Scotland 'National Museums Scotland have a happy knack of publishing books on subjects that have probably never crossed your mind before, yet which turn out to be captivating and thought provoking. Scotland's Land Girls: Breeches, Bombers and Backaches, to give its full title, fits this pattern very well indeed.' Undiscovered Scotland (website) ' ... I found this book totally absorbing. The ladies' reminiscences reveal a great deal of information about an aspect of the war effort which is often overlooked.' Scottish Home and County ' ... full of lively accounts of working and living on farms and how the experience shaped the girls' subsequent lives. ...' Ayrshire Notes ' ... Edwards has undertaken an important role in preserving the history and experiences of these women and their vital part in the war effort.' Northern ScotlandTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of illustrations Editorial Note Foreword SCOTLAND'S LAND GIRLS Introduction Written Recollections Spoken Memories Notes Glossary

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Book SynopsisWhithorn: An Economy of People is an exploration of a unique face-to-face society in Galloway in the south west of Scotland. It paints a picture of a largely cashless economy based on trust, frugality and the skilled labour and strategies of its residents to remain independent of the rest of the world while keeping closely connected to each other. Between 2012 and 2013 Julia Muir Watt interviewed twenty-nine individuals from Whithorn and the Machars about their memories. From those interviewed we learn what it was like to grow up, to go to school, and to work and to play in Whithorn in the twentieth century, before and after the Second World War. A great strength of oral history is that it can provide a direct insight into a lived life. In this collection, we have many such insights into life in and around the burgh of Whithorn. In telling of their experiences, those interviewed also provide an understanding into what it felt like to live those lives. Co-published with the European Ethnological Research Centre based on the research undertaken by them in their programme Dumfries and Galloway:A Regional Ethnology – part of a wider research programme the Regional Ethnology of Scotland Project (RESP).Trade Review' … presents a fascinating picture of life in a particular part of Scotland, and the transcripts and extracts from oral testimonies included offer insight into a number of themes and issues about the experiences of the inhabitants of the area, relevant to a range of existing academic work … a welcome addition to the body of research examining 20th-century Scotland.' Scottish ArchivesTable of ContentsWhithorn Manse by Alistair Reid Acknowledgements Preface Editorial note Lost of Illustrations Introduction WHITHORN: AN ECONOMY OF PEOPLE, 1920-1960 1. Leaving and Returning: Nostalgia of the Writers 2. Outside-In: the Rural Town 3. Outside: the Farms 4. Work and rest: The Timing of Pleasures 5. Up and Down: Wealth and Poverty 6. Here and There 7. Here and Hereafter 8. Incursion and Dispersion: Second World War Index

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Indians in South Africa: an overview of emerging soundscapes.- Chapter 2. Creative Adaptation under Apartheid: Music and Politics.- Chapter 3. Assembling a repertoire: in search of teachers, crafting genres.- Chapter 4. Gender and Music: the case of Indian women performers in South Africa.- Chapter 5. Sonic modernities: the politics and aesthetics of trans-national music in the diaspora during and after apartheid.

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of how American journalists have covered China—from the civil war of the 1940s through the COVID-19 pandemic—in their own words. Mike Chinoy assembles a remarkable collection of personal accounts from eminent journalists.Trade ReviewThe China beat is one of the toughest in journalism—and one of the most important. In Assignment China, Mike Chinoy, CNN's longtime Beijing bureau chief, has created a remarkable oral history of multiple generations of China correspondents, providing insight beyond the headlines and introducing readers to some of the committed, compassionate and colorful people who covered China for the American media from 1945 to the present day. Essential reading for understanding modern China and the history of journalism. -- Tom Johnson, former publisher of the Los Angeles Times and former CEO of CNNBy collecting the thoughts and observations of dozens of prominent journalists who have covered China for more than half a century, we get a broader and richer view of modern China and even some of the difficulties they faced in getting their stories out to the world, rather than through the eyes of just one reporter. And by arranging the insights of the journalists around specific events—whether the Cultural Revolution, ping pong diplomacy, Nixon’s trip to China, Tiananmen Square, China’s economic and social transformation—Chinoy made me feel privileged, as if I was listening in on a gathering of esteemed journalists providing their different and unique perspectives and interpretations. -- Gary Locke, former United States Ambassador to ChinaChina may be one of the most fascinating countries in the world, with 1.4 billion people, and a long, rich and consequential history. But the fact it’s also one of the most closed societies on earth, makes it almost impossible to know the truth of what’s happening there. Mike Chinoy brings us closer to penetrating that wall of secrecy with his brilliant idea of interviewing almost all (?) of the U.S. journalists who’ve covered China over the past 75 years, publishing their observations and their tales of struggle with China’s leaders to win access. This is riveting reading for anyone who wants to understand China, or cares about how great reporters do their work. -- Judy Woodruff, PBS NewsHourA rare and fascinating assemblage of first-hand accounts from decades of American journalists in China. Assignment China fills a gap in the literature on Sino-American relations and it opens a window into how Americans have formed their perceptions of China. -- David Shambaugh, George Washington UniversityMike Chinoy weaves together fascinating vignettes of the drama of changing China from the journalists experiencing them first hand. I started reading and couldn’t put it down. -- Susan Shirk, University of California, San DiegoA terrific document and a fun read. -- Matt Pottinger, China-based reporter (1998-2005) and former Deputy National Security AdvisorAssignment China is an engaging way to view the changing and evolving relationship between the United States and China...a real treat to read. * Middle East Monitor *Mike Chinoy is a pioneering broadcaster who opened CNN's first Beijing bureau in 1987. This book is based on his documentary of the same name. In each, correspondents talk about the challenges of covering China as outsiders. For those not old enough to remember, Chinoy comes from a time when journalism was considered a craft, guided by ethics—when journalists didn't have agendas. A must read for serious journalists and would-be international reporters—plus anyone who wants to understand China's contemporary history. -- Lisa Napoli, author of Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News and Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPRAssignment China gives readers unforgettable behind-the-scenes insights on the challenges and choices faced by journalists covering the biggest story of the past 45 years—the rise of China to the world's center stage. Organized chronologically, author Mike Chinoy is the guide who provides the context for the recollections of the reporters who faced threats, intimidation, and the risk of expulsion to cover Tian'anmen, SARS, COVID-19, and the dramatic changes in the lives of the Chinese people. I couldn't put it down. -- John Holden, former President of the National Committee on U.S.-China RelationsChinoy looks at China since the 1949 revolution and how its journey has been covered by the U.S. media correspondents who had been assigned there. Moments of insight and courage are discussed, along with the painstaking everyday challenge of trying to report the news from this massive, complicated, and secretive country. A fascinating read for China hands and those who want to understand the profession of journalism. -- Frank Lavin, former U.S. ambassador to SIngaporeOffers fascinating accounts of U.S. reporters covering one of journalism's key international beats over the course of close to a century. * Studies in Intelligence *Assignment China is packed full of such wonderful anecdotes, all delivered in conversational speech of reporters on the scene, state department officials and Chinese government personnel. I found myself tearing through the pages. For the modern China bookshelf, this is absolutely required reading. But even for casual news watchers, it’s a highly accessible and utterly engrossing history. -- David Frazier * Taipei Times *A rich story of how correspondents collected and transmitted news and their dealings with the PRC authorities at both national and local levels. * China Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsCast of CharactersIntroduction1. The Chinese Civil War2. China Watching3. “A Struggle of Sea Monsters”4. The Week That Changed the World5. End of an Era6. Opening Up7. “You Were Writing What We Were Thinking”8. Testing the Limits9. Beijing Spring10. The Crackdown in Tiananmen Square11. Aftermath12. A Tale of Two Chinas13. The New Millennium14. Tremors15. Contradictions16. The Turning Point17. Poison18. Follow the Money19. The Surveillance State20. Emperor for Life21. “Reeducation” in Xinjiang22. “I Started to Cry”23. Epidemic24. Expulsion25. The Door ClosesNotesSuggested ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisThis text shows how the shamans, during their night-long performances, create the worlds of words in which shamans exist. It analyzes texts that the shamans use to diagnose and treat afflictions that trouble their clients.

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Book SynopsisFran Leeper Buss, a former welfare recipient who became a pioneer in the field of oral history, has for forty years dedicated herself to the goal of collecting the stories of marginal and working-class US women. Memory, Meaning, and Resistance is based on over 100 oral histories gathered from women from a variety of racial, ethnic, and geographical backgrounds.Trade ReviewThe analysis is methodologically rich yet manages to capture the harsh realities of poverty, sexism, and racism, and the resilience of the activists. The book also sheds light on the role of spirituality in the lives of poor and working class women… An excellent resource for training graduate students to collect oral histories in a more intersectional, postmodern way. In short, we need this book.' - Mary Margaret Fonow, Arizona State University

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Book SynopsisThrough a collection of interviews with elderly Armenians who survived the conflict, this study describes the genocidal campaign mounted by the Turks between 1915 and 1923, during which over 1 million Armenians died. Interviewees describe the break-up of their homes and post-war life in orphanages.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 PART I: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 1. Remembrances of a Forgotten Genocide 2. The Historical and Political Context of the Genocide PART II: SURVIVOR ACCOUNTS 3. Life and Politics Before the Deportations 4. The Deportation Marches 5. The Experience of Women and Children 6. Orphanage Life and Family Reunions 7. Emigration and Resettlement PART III: ANALYSIS 8. Survivor Responses to the Genocide 9. Moral Reflections on the Genocide Appendix A: Methodology Appendix B: Interview Guide Appendix C: Survivors Interviewed Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Japanese invasion of Shanghai in 1937 led 30 million Chinese to flee their homes in terror, and live—in the words of artist and writer Feng Zikai—“in a sea of bitterness” as refugees. Keith Schoppa paints a comprehensive picture of the refugee experience in one province, Zhejiang, where the Japanese launched notorious campaigns.Trade ReviewMakes a signal contribution to the understanding of warfare in China by examining the refugee experience comprehensively. The great strength of this book is that it focuses on an entire province, one whose history and geography the author knows intimately. Schoppa takes an important step towards fulfilling the call, made by the eminent historian Parks Coble, for scholars to explore more deeply the traumatic effects of this war on civilians. -- Rebecca Nedostup, author of Superstitious RegimesA stunning account of the horrific experiences of Chinese refugees during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45. Focusing on people's actual sentiments rather than state-generated propaganda, Schoppa finds that personal concerns, not the interests of the nation, were uppermost in the minds of refugees. He also shows that refugee strategies were profoundly shaped by the preeminent importance in Chinese culture of native place and the complex networks of human connections associated with it. In the brutal caldron of war, local attachments, which were concrete, trumped more abstract national ones. -- Paul A. Cohen, author of Speaking to HistoryJapan's "Rape of Nanking" is infamous. Less well known are the massacres at Qiaosi and countless other places. In a moving, relentless narrative, Keith Schoppa shows how Japanese bombing, arson, rape, pillage and murder in the first years of war unleashed a "tsunami of refugees" across China. Rulers and ruled, teachers and students, merchants and customers, farmers and artisans went on the run. This is the story of how they lived, coped, resisted, remembered or died in one Chinese province. Schoppa takes us back to "a world where ghosts wailed," when local, national and global destinies were sorted out. This is a masterful and sobering history. -- William C. Kirby, editor of The People's Republic of China at 60The brutal Japanese invasion of China in 1937 forced more than 30 million Chinese to flee their homes and subsist in regions of their country unfamiliar to them as refugees until the end of World War II. Schoppa retraces the stories of these refugees, produced from oral histories, journals, and memoirs chronicling a turbulent period in one particular province--Zhejiang, on the central Chinese coast. The terrorizing offensives of mass murder, rape, and germ warfare launched by the Japanese militarists brought about the most demoralizing sense of political, cultural, and psychological dislocation in Chinese history...A moving narrative for serious readers in Chinese or Japanese history and in the history of 20th-century warfare in East Asia. -- Allan Cho * Library Journal *Schoppa relies primarily on the direct accounts of diarists to illustrate the confusion and emotional distress that accompanied the physical hardships of being without a home during wartime--particularly for a culture that places such a high value on the concept of home. The era Schoppa revisits in this book is a dark one--as one refugee says, the loss of his home in the war thrust him into a "sea of bitterness"--but with measured analysis and an arsenal of facts, he sheds light on the war's forgotten refugees. * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisOral testimonies from the creative, violent and ground-shaking events in France, May '68.Trade Review'These powerful and moving testimonies create an eye-opening account of the inspiring events of May '68, which are more relevant for today's activists than ever before' -- Paul MasonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Timeline of Events in 1968 1. Introduction: May ’68 Revisited 2. Veterans in the Struggle Jean-Jacques Lebel Alain Krivine Prisca Bachelet Henri Simon 3. Students in Paris Suzanne Borde Isabelle Saint-Saëns Sonia Fayman Jean-Pierre Fournier Pauline Steiner Pierre Mercier 4. May Outside Paris Jacques Wajnsztejn (Lyon) Joseph Potiron (La Chapelle-sur-Erdre) Guy Texier (Saint-Nazaire), Bernard Vauselle (Saint-Nazaire), Dominique Barbe (Nantes) Myriam Chédotal (Saint-Nazaire), Eliane Paul-Di Vicenzo (Nantes) Jean-Michel Rabaté (Bordeaux) José and Hélène Chatroussat (Rouen) 5. May and Film Michel Andrieu Pascal Aubier and Bernard Eisenschitz 6. Some Anarchists Daniel Pinos Wally Rosell Thierry Porré About the Author

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Book SynopsisA vivid collection of texts from the movements and uprisings of the 'long 1968'.Trade Review'This extraordinary collection brings together the great manifestos, political programmes, and other original writings that inspired - and were inspired by - the movements and uprisings of 1968... indispensable for anyone interested in the global upheavals of that annus mirabilis' -- Jeff Goodwin, NYU, editor of The Social Movements Reader and author of No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991'Read Voices of 1968 to understand how, why and where deeply rooted activist currents coalesced into a global uprising that changed the world. Here are the transnational threads of hope and possibility desperately needed in an era of neoliberalism' -- Robyn C. Spencer, CUNY, author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party'The many revolts and uprisings of 1968 have frequently been told through narratives which have depoliticised them. This valuable collection of original documents and writings reasserts the diverse forms of radicalism and struggles for radical change in this pivotal year. It's a significant resource for hope and struggle' -- David Featherstone, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, and author of Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism'Here are voices from the marvellous year of 1968, as they spoke then. Some speak to projects we still struggle to realise half a century later. If a few are slightly mad, most are empowering, we know them as our own. We are their inheritor' -- Colin Barker, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Manchester Metropolitan University, editor of Revolutionary Rehearsals and author of Festival of the Oppressed'This is a direly needed document collection of great value. To the best of my knowledge, this is the most comprehensive such publication on global 1968 in any Western language' -- Gerd-Rainer Horn, author of The Spirit of '68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-76'These revolutionary texts, many translated into English for the first time, contribute to challenge the whitewashing of this extraordinary year of anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, antiracist, feminist and LGBT struggles' -- Françoise Vergès, Chair Global South(s), Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris'An invaluable collection of original material from this most epic of years ranging right across Europe and the USA for its sources' -- Philosophy FootballTable of ContentsAcknowledgements What Was 1968? by Salar Mohandesi, Bjarke Skærlund Risager, and Laurence Cox 1. United States Paul Potter: The Incredible War (1965) General Gordon Baker, Jr.: Letter to Draft Board 100, Wayne County, Detroit, Michigan (1965) The Diggers: Trip Without a Ticket (1967) Tom Hayden: Two, Three, Many Columbias (1968) Redstockings Manifesto (1969) The Black Panther Party and Young Patriots Organization: Right On! (1969) Young Lords Party: 13-Point Program and Platform (1970) 2. Canada Front de Libération du Québec: Message of the FLQ to the Nation (1963) Charles Gagnon and Pierre Vallières: Letter to Stokely Carmichael (1968) Keith Byrne, Rosie Douglas, and Elder Thébaud: Black Writers Congress: The Organizers Talk … (1968) Native Alliance for Red Power: Eight-Point Program (1969) Workers’ Unity: Salt of the Earth … Two for the Price of One (1971) Corporation des Enseignants du Québec: Phase One (1971) Vancouver Women’s Caucus: Lesbians Belong in the Women’s Movement (1972) 3. Mexico National Strike Council: List of Demands (1968) National Strike Council: For a Worker/Peasant/Student Alliance (1968) Gilberto Guevara Niebla, Ana Ignacia Rodríguez, and María Alice Martínez Medrano: Eyewitness Accounts (1971) Jaime Sabines: Tlatelolco, 68 (1972) Party of the Poor: First Principles (1972) First Indigenous Congress: Resolutions (1974) La Revuelta: Editorial (1976) 4. Japan Akiyama Katsuyuki: To the Fighting Students and Workers of All Japan and the Whole World (1967) Iwadare Hiroshi: Without Warning, Riot Police Beat Citizens As Well: Dispatch from Our Reporter Inside the Maelstrom (1968)Council on Armed Revolution, Red Army Faction, Communist League: Declaration of War (1969) AMPO Interviews Makoto Oda (1969) Tanaka Mitsu: Liberation from the Toilet (1970) Ui Jun: Pollution and Residents Struggle (1974) 5. West Germany Students’ Trade Union Working Group, SDS Munich, Liberal Students Association Munich, Social Democratic Higher Education Association Munich: Murder (1967) Rudi Dutschke and Hans-Jürgen Krahl: Self-Denial Requires a Guerrilla Mindset (1967) Kommune I: Consumer, Why are you Burning? (1967) H. Heinemann: Observations on the Tactics and Deployment of West Berlin’s Fascistoid Press (1967) Women’s Liberation Action Council/Helke Sander: Speech to the twenty-third SDS Delegate Conference (1968) Wimmin’s Council of the Frankfurt Group: Statement of Accounts (1968) Red Army Faction: Build the Red Army (1970) Walter Mossmann: Watch on the Rhine (1974) 6. Denmark Ole Grünbaum: Emigrate (1968) Erland Kolding Nielsen: Democracy or Student Rule? (1968) Lisbeth Dehn Holgersen, Åse Lading, Ninon Schloss and Marie-Louise Svane: Something is Happening, But You Don’t Know What It Is, Do You, Mr. Jones? (1970) Jacob Ludvigsen: The Military’s “Forbidden City” on Christianshavn was Quietly Taken by Ordinary Civilians (1971) Aqqaluk Lynge: Will We be Squeezed to Death in Your Bosom, Mother Denmark: The Fourth World and the “Rabid” Greenlanders (1975) 7. France La Jeunesse Communiste Révolutionnaire: February 21: A Tribute to Vietnamese Heroism (1968) Action: Why We Are Fighting (1968) Fredy Perlman: Liberated Censier: A Revolutionary Base (1968) Slogans (1968) Alsthom Workers on Self-Management (1968) Le Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons: Manifesto (1971) Manifesto of the 343 Women (1971) Moktar: “Everytime We Advance the Liberation of the Arab People, We Also Advance the French Revolution” (1971) 8. Italy Occupiers of the Sapienza University: The Sapienza Theses (1967) Movement for a Negative University/Renato Curcio: Manifesto for a Negative University (1967) The Struggle Continues (1968) Potere Operaio: The Lessons of the Revolt in France (1968) Lucio Magri: One Year Later: Prague Stands Alone (1969) Workers’ Committee of Porto Marghera: As We Work, We Workers Produce Capital: How We Reproduce Capital’s Rule Over Ourselves (1970) Red Brigade: Communiqué no. 3 (1970) Padua Women’s Struggle Movement/Mariarosa Dalla Costa: First Document (1971) 9. Britain Why Vietnam Solidarity? Policy Statement by the International Council of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign (1966) Dave Slaney: The Occupation of LSE (1968) J.W.: Network: or How We Beat the Gallery System (1969) International Times: “People Round about Living in Fear” (1970) Black Women’s Action Committee: The Oppressed of the Oppressed (1971) Gay Liberation Front: Manifesto (1971) 10. Northern Ireland Campaign for Social Justice: Londonderry: One Man, No Vote (1965) Derry Housing Action Committee: ’68 DHAC ’69 (1969) Russell Kerr, John Ryan and Anne Kerr: Three Eyewitnesses Report on Londonderry (1968) Bowes Egan and Vincent McCormack: Burntollet (1969) “A Republican in the Civil Rights Movement” (pseudonym): Britain and the Barricade (1969) People’s Democracy/Eilish McDermott: Speech to the National Association for Irish Justice (1969) 11. Yugoslavia Ivica Percl: Honored Professor (1968) Resolution of the Student Demonstration (1968) Letter from Students to Workers (1968) Political Action Program (1968) Proclamation of the Revolutionary Students of the Socialist University “Seven Secretaries of the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia” (1968) D. Plamenic: Discussion held by the General Assembly of the Philosophy and Sociology Faculty (1968) 12. Czechoslovakia Action Program of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1968) Milan Hauner: Rudi Dutschke in Recovery (1968) Ludvík Vaculík: Two Thousand Words that Belong to Workers, Farmers, Officials, Scientists, Artists, and Everybody (1968) Extraordinary Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia: Proclamation Adopted at the Opening of the Congress (1968) Information from the Local Councils of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, the Municipality, and the National Front to the Citizens of the Town (1968) Aktual/Milan Knížák: Russians, Go Home! (1968) Workers’ Councils: The Guarantee of Democratic Administration and Managerial Activity (1969) A Letter from Jan Palach addressed to the Union of Czechoslovak Writers (1969)

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Book SynopsisBalancing art, social theory, and history and drawing from family records, oral histories, and photographs rescued from New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Arthe Anthony gives us a rich look at the cultural landscape of New Orleans nearly a century ago.Trade Review“Fascinating.”—LA Weekly“[An] alluring book.”—New Orleans Magazine“Anthony delivers a warm and detailed portrait of Collins and some facets of New Orleans’ rich and richly complicated culture in the early 20th century.”—Gambit“Readers will appreciate amusing and emotional anecdotes while also gaining a strong sense of what New Orleans was like in those 20th-century decades for Creoles and others of African heritage.”—Library Journal

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Book SynopsisDuring the wave of mass arrests, torture, and executions that followed Pinochet’s coup, people began fleeing Chile. Out of their anguish and anger come these moving and powerful testimonies of their fractured lives.Trade ReviewA compelling and moving account."—Marjorie Agosín, author of Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love: The Arpillera Movement in Chile, 1974-1994Table of Contents Introduction Translator's Introduction Acknowledgments Chapter One. The Diaspora in Context: Chilean Politics, 1970-1994 Chapter Two. Prelude to Exile: The Military Coup Chapter Three. Paths to Exile Chapter Four. Resistance and Exile Chapter Five. The Diaspora: Exile on Four Continents Chapter Six. The Diaspora: Exile in Western Europe Chapter Seven. Political Life in Exile: Fighting the Dictatorship from Afar Chapter Eight. Exilesʼ Return, 1978-1988: Struggle on Many Fronts Chapter Nine. Return to a New Exile, 1988-1994 Selected Bibliography List of Interviews Index

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Book SynopsisBy putting past and present scholarship into dialogue with each other, this book addresses accomplishments in Canadian women's and gender history, as well as ongoing silences and absences.Trade Review"Anyone engaging in women’s, gender, or feminist history in Canada today will benefit from the book’s thorough consideration of how the field of women’s history, understood broadly, was built, its historiographical trends, and the collaborative effort of historians to de-marginalize women and bring their experiences to the forefront of historical study. The excellent contributions in this book remind us yet again that though the field is rich and deep, much work remains to be done." -- Rebecca Beausaert, University of Guelph * Histoire sociale / Social History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Feminist Conversations Nancy Janovicek, University of Calgary and Carmen Nielson, Mount Royal University 2. Our Historiographical Moment: A Conversation about Indigenous Women’s History in Canada in the Early Twenty-First Century Mary Jane Logan McCallum, University of Winnipeg and Susan M. Hill, University of Toronto 3. Writing Black Canadian Women’s History: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going Karen Flynn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Funké Aladejebi, University of New Brunswick 4. Quebec Nationalism and the History of Women and Gender Denyse Baillargeon, Université de Montréal 5. Class, Race, and Gender Roles in Early British North America Katherine M.J. McKenna, Western University 6. Performative (Ir)rationality: Rethinking Agency in Canadian Histories of Gender, Religion, Reason, and Beyond Beth A. Robertson, Carleton University 7. Home Fronts and Front Lines: A Gendered History of War and Peace Tarah Brookfield, Wilfrid Laurier University and Sarah Glassford, University of Ottawa 8. Historical Feminisms in Canada to 1940: Further Reflections on the So-Called First Wave Nancy Forestell, St. Francis Xavier University 9. Never Done: Feminists Reinterpret Their Own History Joan Sangster, Trent University 10. Beyond Sisters or Strangers: Feminist Immigrant Women’s History and Rewriting Canadian History Marlene Epp, University of Waterloo and Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto 11. Primal Urge/National Force: Sex, Sexuality, and National History Heather Stanley, Vancouver Island University 12. Challenging Work: Feminist Scholarship on Women, Gender, and Work in Canadian History Lisa Pasolli, Queen’s University and Julia Smith, University of Alberta 13. Realizing Reproductive Justice in Canadian History Shannon Stettner, University of Waterloo, Kristin Burnett, Lakehead University, and Lori Chambers, Lakehead University List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisMonique Moultrie collects oral histories of Black lesbian religious leaders in the United States to show how their authenticity, social justice awareness, spirituality, and collaborative leadership make them models of womanist ethical leadership.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. That Their Living Will Not Be in Vain 1 1. Shattering Stain-Glassed Ceilings: African American Queer Storytelling 17 2. Going to Hell for My Authenticity: Existence as Resistance 38 3. Justice Is Spiritual: Interrogating Spiritual Activism 68 4. Mighty Causes Are Calling Us: Expanding Womanist Spiritualities 103 5. Doing the Work Their Souls Must Have: Cultivating Womanist Ethical Leadership 126 Conclusion. Leading from the Margins 168 Epilogue. Online Archives 182 Appendix: Interview Guide 187 Interview Guide 187 Notes 189 Bibliography 203 Index 217

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Book SynopsisIn this important new book, Paul T. Phillips argues that most professional historians aside from a relatively small number devoted to theory and methodology have concerned themselves with particular, specialized areas of research, thereby ignoring the fundamental questions of truth, morality, and meaning. This is less so in the thriving general community of history enthusiasts beyond academia, and may explain, in part at least, history’s sharp decline as a subject of choice by students in recent years. Phillips sees great dangers resulting from the thinking of extreme relativists and postmodernists on the futility of attaining historical truth, especially in the age of post-truth. He also believes that moral judgment and the search for meaning in history should be considered part of the discipline’s mandate. In each section of this study, Phillips outlines the nature of individual issues and past efforts to address them, including approaches derived from otherTrade Review"Phillips's book is not a thundering polemic but, rather, a quiet, reasoned meditation. [...] The author is generally an erudite guide, and he packs a great many observations as to the history and philosophy of history into 134 pages of text." -- Alan MacHeachern, Western University * University of Toronto Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Truth 2. Morality 3. Meaning 4. History Beyond the Academy Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn the mid- to late-1930s, while he was a student at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan wrote a series of eight essays on the philosophy and theology of history. These essays foreshadow a number of the major themes in his life’s work. The significance of these essays is enormous, not only for an understanding of the later trajectory of Lonergan’s own work but also for the development of a contemporary systematic theology. In an important entry from 1965 in his archival papers, Lonergan wrote that the mediated object of systematics is Geschichte or the history that is lived and written about. In the same entry, he stated that the doctrines that this systematic theology would attempt to understand are focused on redemption. The seeds of such a theology are planted in the current volume, where the formulae that are so pronounced in his later work first appear. Students of Lonergan’s work will find their understanding of his philosophy Table of ContentsGeneral Editors’ Preface Robert M. Doran 1. Essay in Fundamental Sociology: Philosophy of History 2. Pantōn Anakephalaiōsis: A Theory of Human Solidarity 3. Pantōn Anakephalaiōsis (2) 4. Sketch for a Metaphysic of Human Solidarity 5. A Theory of History 6. Outline of an Analytic Concept of History 7. Analytic Concept of History, in Blurred Outline 8. Analytic Concept of History Latin and Greek Words and Phrases

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Book SynopsisIn this important new book, Paul T. Phillips argues that most professional historians aside from a relatively small number devoted to theory and methodology have concerned themselves with particular, specialized areas of research, thereby ignoring the fundamental questions of truth, morality, and meaning. This is less so in the thriving general community of history enthusiasts beyond academia, and may explain, in part at least, history’s sharp decline as a subject of choice by students in recent years. Phillips sees great dangers resulting from the thinking of extreme relativists and postmodernists on the futility of attaining historical truth, especially in the age of post-truth. He also believes that moral judgment and the search for meaning in history should be considered part of the discipline’s mandate. In each section of this study, Phillips outlines the nature of individual issues and past efforts to address them, including approaches derived from otherTrade Review"Phillips's book is not a thundering polemic but, rather, a quiet, reasoned meditation. [...] The author is generally an erudite guide, and he packs a great many observations as to the history and philosophy of history into 134 pages of text." -- Alan MacHeachern, Western University * University of Toronto Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Truth 2. Morality 3. Meaning 4. History Beyond the Academy Conclusion Notes Index

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