Oral history Books

Book SynopsisThe Irish Civil War ended in 1923. Eighty years on, documentary-maker Tom Hurley wondered if there were many people left from across Ireland who experienced the years 1919 to 1923, their prelude and aftermath.In early 2003, he recorded the experiences of 18 people, conducting two further interviews abroad in 2004. Tom spoke to a cross-section (Catholic, Protestant, Unionist and Nationalist) who were in their teens or early twenties during the civil war. The chronological approach he has taken spans fifty years, beginning with the oldest interviewee's birth in 1899 and ending when the Free State became a republic in 1949.100 years after the Civil War ended, this book weaves aunique chronology of the revolutionary years through the experiences of 20 people.Together, theirs are the last voices of the Irish Revolution.

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Book SynopsisPublished on the 35th anniversary of Sands' death, this powerful biography illuminates his life and political impact.Trade Review'An excellent book. It tells not just the story of Bobby, the prison protest and hunger strikes, but accurately captures the atmosphere of the prison. Friends of Bobby tell of the person they knew. He is alive and vibrant on every page' -- Dr Laurence McKeown, former IRA Hunger-Striker'The life of Bobby Sands shows development, growth, maturation, and a profoundly humanistic internationalist flavour, in the midst of a bitter, ugly struggle that can purge the humanity out of anyone' -- Mumia Abu-Jamal, American activist and journalist'A gripping, heart-stopping, exhilarating sometimes sad book - a story of life, love and noble death' -- Malachy McCourt, actor, writer and politician'Bobby Sands, as this magnificent biography reminds us, was a hero for the whole world. We cried when he died, but he laughed in the face of tyranny and taught us the deepest meaning of comradeship' -- Mike Davis, political activist and historian'This book has been, in my view, a primary tool for our collective, peaceful efforts, and helped us to achieve victories in our struggle - Bobby's spirit lives on' -- Todd Ashker, representative of the Short Corridor Collective Human Rights Movement, Pelican Bay State Prison, CaliforniaTable of ContentsForeword to the New Edition by Mumia Abu-Jamal Preface to the New Edition Prelude 1. Growing Up in Utopia 2. Violence and Anger 3. Into the IRA 4. A Change of Scene 5. A Trip to the South 6. Prison 7. Things Get Hot 8. Learning to Rebel 9. Leaving Long Kesh 10. Putting It into Practice 11. A Bad Day in Dunmurry 12. Castlereagh 13. Back to Prison 14. Solitary Confinement 15. On the Blanket 16. Escalating the Protest 17. H6: Building Solidarity Within 18. H6: Extending the Protest 19. Toward the Inevitable 20. Hunger Strike 21. Step by Step 22. The End 23. The Beginning Notes Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisOn a stormy evening in January 1953, Peggy Morgan kissed her five-year-old son goodnight, blissfully unaware of the impending catastrophe. Those who lived tell how, with dogged determination, they prevailed against unimaginable adversity: their stories of courage and fortitude are told simply and without self pity.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Prologue Act I Act II Act III Act IV Act V Appendix

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Prologue Act I Act II Act III Act IV Act V Appendix

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Book SynopsisThe inspiring and unknown story of how the villagers of Graignes joined in solidarity with US paratroopers following the invasion of Normandy. Inspired by his own father's experience, Stephen G. Rabe recounts how the villagers supported and saved paratroopers from marauding Nazi SS forces in the post-D-Day period.Trade Review'Lost no longer, the American paratroopers who helped to liberate Normandy find a sympathetic chronicler in Stephen G. Rabe. This is micro-history at its most intimate. In granular detail, Rabe recounts the story of how American troops and French villagers rescued Graignes from German occupation. Drawing on deep research and even deeper feeling, the author pays tribute to his veteran father, to a generation, and to enduring ties between two nations bound together by collective sacrifices and shared valor.' Susan Carruthers, author of Dear John: Love and Loyalty in Wartime America'Compelling and suspenseful, The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy highlights the bravery and resourcefulness of American soldiers and the people of Graignes while further demolishing the myth of a blameless Waffen SS.' Steven P. Remy, author of The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy'Stephen G. Rabe's exhaustively researched work breaks the silence surrounding the heroic roles played by French men and women to assure the success of the American landings. Engagingly written, the story emphasizes the courage of both soldier and civilian in the face of SS murder and atrocity. A must-read for anyone who wishes to explore another view of the D-Day landings. Highly recommended.' Mary Louise Roberts, author of D-Day Through French Eyes: Memoirs of Normandy 1944'Stephen G. Rabe provides a fascinating and multi-layered military, diplomatic, and social history of US World War II paratroopers, French villagers, and the protection they gave each other in June 1944. In the process, he provides a fitting tribute to his father, who was one of those paratroopers.' Mark A. Stoler, author of Allies in War: Britain and America against the Axis Powers, 1940–1945'… this history combines heroism and tragedy in equal measure. WWII buffs will be engrossed.' Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Paratrooper; 2. Overseas; 3. Occupied France; 4. Liberators and friends; 5. Days of friendship, hope, and waiting; 6. The longest day in Graignes; 7. Escape, exile, and annihilation; 8. Graignes in historical memory; Afterword.

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Book SynopsisOral History at a Distance is the first publication to explore both the ideas behind and application of oral history in remote projects.Since the COVID-19 pandemic, working from a distance is now an ongoing and necessary approach in the oral historian's toolkit. In this volume, the experienced team members of Baylor University's Institute for Oral History provide a road map for adapting traditional best practices and procedures to this new environment while maintaining the standards oral historians hold dear. The authors present chapters on the range of oral history practiceproject design, ethical considerations, project management, interviewing, technology, and preservation. While this book is always concerned with how to do remote oral history well, it also examines the changed dynamics and new considerations of moving from face-to-face projects to distance work. In this, the authors are joined by an international host of practitioners who have had their own experien

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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 SynopsisBelfast punk and the Troubles is an oral history of the punk scene in Belfast from the mid-1970s to the mid-80s. The book explores what it was like to be a punk in a city shaped by the violence of the Troubles, and how this differed from being a punk elsewhere. It also asks what it means to have been a punk – how punk unravels as a thread throughout the lives of the people interviewed, and what that unravelling means in the context of post-peace-process Northern Ireland. In doing so, it suggests a critical understanding of sectarianism, subjectivity and memory politics in the North, and argues for the importance of placing punk within the segregated structures of everyday life described by the interviewees.Adopting an innovative oral history approach drawing on the work of Luisa Passerini and Alessandro Portelli, the book analyses a small number of oral history interviews with participants in granular detail. Outlining the historical context and the cultural memory of punk, the central chapters each delve into one or two interviews to draw out the affective, imaginative and political ways in which punks and former punks evoke their memories of taking part in the scene. Through this method, it analyses the punk scene as a structure of feeling shaped through the experience of growing up in wartime Belfast.Belfast punk and the Troubles is an intervention in Northern Irish historiography stressing the importance of history from below, and will be compelling reading for historians of Ireland and of punk, as well as those interested in innovative approaches to oral history.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Alternative Ulster? Sectarianism, segregation and the punk scene2. The Belfast punk scene in cultural memory3. Epiphany, transgression and movement 4. Making affective and political spaces5. Gender, respectability and emigration6. Collecting, storytelling and memoryConclusionAppendixBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this final part to his bestselling A Force Like No Other series, Colin Breen brings together more compelling insider stories from RUC officers who served during the Troubles. ‘A most powerful and unique insight into the world’s most dangerous job in policing in the 1970s and ’80s.’ Henry McDonald, Observer and Guardian ‘This book of real RUC insider anecdotes … has, of course, the best possible sources – the cops themselves.’ Hugh Jordan, Sunday World ‘A Force Like No Other recalls the horrors of the Troubles but also some of the funnier stories of everyday life as a cop.’ Stephen Gordon, Sunday Life

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Book SynopsisIn war, there is no easy victory.When troops invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein’s regime, most people expected an easy victory. Instead, the gamble we took was a grave mistake, and its ramifications continue to reverberate through the lives of millions, in Iraq and the West. As we gain more distance from those events, it can be argued that many of the issues facing us today – the rise of the Islamic State, increased Islamic terrorism, intensified violence in the Middle East, mass migration, and more – can be traced back to the decision to invade Iraq.In The Iraq War, award-winning documentary maker James Bluemel collects first-hand testimony from those who lived through the horrors of the invasion and whose actions were dictated by such extreme circumstances. It takes in all sides of the conflict – working class Iraqi families watching their country erupt into civil war; soldiers and journalists on the ground; American families dealing with the grief of losing their son or daughter; parents of a suicide bomber coming to terms with unfathomable events – to create the most in-depth and multi-faceted portrait of the Iraq War to date. Accompanying a major BBC series, James Bluemel’s book is an essential account of a conflict that continues to shape our world, and a startling reminder of the consequences of our past decisions.

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Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE*****'There have been many books written about the events of Bloody Sunday, however, none has wrenched the reader as violently back to those CS gas-choked streets, dumping them right in the heart of the screaming, running, shooting and crying, as Julieann Campbell's On Bloody Sunday. A powerful chronicle of one of the darkest episodes of modern times.' - Sunday Times'Powerful and moving ... The strength of this important new book lies in the artistry the author brings to the tasks of portraying both the community upon which the massacre was perpetrated, and the individuals within it.' - Irish Times'Meticulous.... On Bloody Sunday possesses a veracity and cumulative power that sets it apart from previous accounts' - Observer'A momentous chronicle, timely and vital, which highlights that the burden of change rests, as always, upon the shoulders of those who suffered and yet, have nurtured the desire that lessons be learned.' - Michael Mansfield QC, who represented a number of families during the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.'It is a vital record of the time, the city, and its people, and more impressive still it does so almost entirely in their own words, their heartbreak, their anger, their resilience, their humour. Julieann Campbell has given their voices, so long silenced, the dignity they deserve. It is a staggering achievement.' - Séamas O'Reilly'It's a wonderful book. The technique used - multiple voices speaking directly to us - is very simple but it has a profound effect. It puts us into the middle of the chaos of Bloody Sunday and keeps us there throughout the grief and anger that follow. A wonderful, wonderful book.' - Jimmy McGovern, BAFTA winning screenwriter, creator of 'Sunday' (2002)In January 1972, a peaceful civil rights march in Northern Ireland ended in bloodshed. Troops from Britain's 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment opened fire on marchers, leaving 13 dead and 15 wounded. Seven of those killed were teenage boys. The day became known as 'Bloody Sunday'.The events occurred in broad daylight and in the full glare of the press. Within hours, the British military informed the world that they had won an 'IRA gun battle'. This became the official narrative for decades until a family-led campaign instigated one of the most complex inquiries in history. In 2010, the victims of Bloody Sunday were fully exonerated when Lord Saville found that the majority of the victims were either shot in the back as they ran away or were helping someone in need. The report made headlines all over the world. While many buried the trauma of that day, historian and campaigner Juliann Campbell - whose teenage uncle was the first to be killed that day - felt the need to keep recording these interviews, and collecting rare and unpublished accounts, aware of just how precious they were. Fifty years on, in this book, survivors, relatives, eyewitnesses and politicians, shine a light on the events of Bloody Sunday, together, for the first time.As they tell their stories, the tension, confusion and anger build with an awful power. ON BLOODY SUNDAY unfolds before us an extraordinary human drama, as we experience one of the darkest moments in modern history - and witness the true human cost of conflict.Trade ReviewRaw, meticulous and deeply personal, On Bloody Sunday is a remarkable act of public memory. The book gathers hundreds of different voices in testimony and reflection, retelling the unresolved story of the massacre of unarmed civilians in 1972. In doing so, it expands the possibilities of oral history as a resource for truth and justice. -- Dan HicksThrough multiple voices, Campbell puts us in the thick of history and humanity in this chronicle that throbs with grief, anger and frustration. It also frames the legacy of that tragic day in the context of the greater historical picture, how the people of Derry's efforts to get justice lay down a benchmark for similar campaigns across the world to this day. -- Donal O'Donoghue * RTE *Bloody Sunday was a pivotal moment in Irish history. Julieann Campbell places it perfectly in its time and place. The dominant notes are of anger and grief, and admiration for the indomitable spirit of the families and other campaigners who strove against daunting odds to vindicate the memory of the murdered. -- Eamonn McCann, journalist, author and Irish civil rights leaderA momentous chronicle, timely and vital, which highlights that the burden of change rests, as always, upon the shoulders of those who suffered and yet, have nurtured the desire that lessons be learned. -- Michael Mansfield QC, who represented a number of families during the Bloody Sunday InquiryThe technique used - multiple voices speaking directly to us - is very simple but it has a profound effect. It puts us into the middle of the chaos of Bloody Sunday and keeps us there throughout the grief and anger that follow. A wonderful, wonderful book. -- Jimmy McGovern, BAFTA-winning screenwriterSo many people - judges, politicians, generals, journalists - have had their say on Bloody Sunday. his book allows the voices of the people of Derry to be heard. Their accounts are exciting, tragic, infuriating, but, above all, authentic. The fear, anger and grief leap off the pages. -- Anne Cadwallader, journalist and authorHeartbreaking, poignant, powerful. -- Joe Duffy, broadcaster and authorThis was a day like no other in my lifetime ... a day that affected the lives of countless thousands on this Island. -- Christy Moore, Irish folk songwriter and musicianPowerful and moving ... The strength of this important new book lies in the artistry the author brings to the tasks of portraying both the community upon which the massacre was perpetrated, and the individuals within it... Campbell takes the voices of marchers, leaders, family members, doctors, priests and others and works her material like a woman knitting an Aran jumper, using a complicated pattern to create something that looks in the end simply beautiful. The book is animated by nothing less than love. The people of Derry are Campbells's people. She is from one of the Bloody Sunday families - her uncle, Jackie Duddy, was the first of the 12 people who were murdered that day. He was just 17. -- Susan Mckay * Irish Times *

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Book SynopsisA powerful account of the decline of the Cuban Revolution, told through the lives of five ordinary Cuban citizens. 'Masterful... Dore uses oral history to tell a history of Cuba from the bottom up' Professor Linda Gordon 'A vital addition to Cuba's rich oral tradition' Will Grant, BBC Cuba Correspondent 'Opens wide a window on the last forty years of Cuban history' Professor Gerald Martin 'To have gathered these life stories together with such grace, eloquence and trust is a towering achievement' Professor Ruth Behar Cuba is not the country it used to be. The regime is disintegrating, and unprecedented protest marches are challenging the gerontocratic Communist Party leadership. How Things Fall Apart reveals the decay of this political system through the lives of five ordinary Cuban citizens. Born in the 1970s and 80s, these men and women recount how their lives changed over a tumultuous stretch of thirty-five years: first when Fidel opened the country to tourism following the fall of the Soviet bloc; then when Raúl Castro allowed market forces to operate, thinking it would stop the country's economic slide; and finally when President Trump's tightening of the US embargo combined with the Covid-19 pandemic to cause economic collapse. With warmth and humanity, they describe learning to survive in an environment where a tiny minority has grown rich by local standards, the great majority has been left behind, and inequality has destroyed the very things that used to give meaning to Cubans' lives. Born out of the first oral history project authorized by the Cuban government in forty years, Professor Elizabeth Dore gathers these stories to illuminate the slow and agonizing decline of the Cuban Revolution over the past four decades. For over sixty years the government controlled the historical narrative. In this book, Cubans tell their own stories.Trade ReviewMasterful... Dore uses oral history to tell a history of Cuba from the bottom up, accompanied by her own astute commentary. How Things Fall Apart reads like a set of vivid short stories -- Professor Linda GordonAn elegant account of the evolution of a revolution. Writing on a topic which still has the power to provoke the most visceral responses across the political spectrum, Dore has done a rare thing: she has let the Cuban people speak for themselves. Dore handles their stories of triumph and hardship with honesty, compassion and respect, and in the process has held up a mirror to the state of the Cuban Revolution in the twenty-first century. How Things Fall Apart is a vital addition to Cuba's rich oral tradition -- Will Grant, BBC Mexico, Central America and Cuba CorrespondentThese life stories of Cubans are so raw, so honest, so moving, that you feel as if you know each of them personally. To have gathered them together with such grace, eloquence and trust is a towering achievement... This book serves as a testament to the audacity and sorrow Cubans experienced in seeking to change not only their own history but the history of the world -- Professor Ruth Behar, author of Letters from CubaElizabeth Dore's book opens wide a window on the last forty years of Cuban history and allows us to listen, uniquely, to the always vivid memories and conclusions of ordinary Cubans as they look back on the lives they lived during the most arduous and troubled years of the Revolution -- Professor Gerald MartinCuba through human lenses. Dore's impressive book sadly portrays the unraveling of the revolutionary utopian dream -- Professor Susan EcksteinThe chronicle of a death foretold * Spectator *

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Book Synopsis2012 marks the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba - the most traumatic catastrophe that ever befell Palestinians. This book explores new ways of remembering and commemorating the Nakba. In the context of Palestinian oral history, it explores 'social history from below', subaltern narratives of memory and the formation of collective identity. Masalha argues that to write more truthfully about the Nakba is not just to practise a professional historiography but an ethical imperative. The struggles of ordinary refugees to recover and publicly assert the truth about the Nakba is a vital way of protecting their rights and keeping the hope for peace with justice alive. This book is essential for understanding the place of the Palestine Nakba at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the vital role of memory in narratives of truth and reconciliation.Trade ReviewNur Masalha has a distiguished and deserved reputation for scholarship on the Nakba and Palestinian refugees. Now, with his latest book, his searching analysis of past and present makes for a powerful combination of remembrance and resistance. * Ben White, journalist and author of Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide *As a meticulous scholar, historian and above all Palestinian, Nur Masalha is eminently suited to write this excellent book. He has produced a marvellous history of the Nakba which should be essential reading for all those concerned with the origins of the conflict over Palestine. * Ghada Karmi, author of Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine *This book is the most comprehensive and penetrating analysis available of the catastophe that befell Arab Palestine and its people in 1948, known as the Nakba. It shows how the expulsion and physical obliteration of the material traces of a people was followed by what Masalha calls 'memoricide': the effacement of their history, their archives, and their place-names, and a denial that they had ever existed. * Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies Department of History, Columbia University *Nur Masalha's 'The Palestinian Nakba' is a tour de force examining the process of transformation of Palestine over the last century. One outstanding feature of this study is the systematic manner in which it investigates the accumulated scholarship on the erasure of Palestinian society and culture, including a critical assessment of the work of the new historians. In what he calls 'reclaiming the memory' he goes on to survey and build on a an emergent narrative. Masalha's work is essential and crucial for any scholar seeking this alternate narrative. * Salim Tamari, Visiting Professor of History, Georgetown University *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Zionism and European Settler-Colonialism 2. The Memoricide of the Nakba: Zionist-Hebrew Toponymy and the De-Arabisation of Palestine 3. Fashioning a European Landscape, Erasure and Amnesia: The Jewish National Fund, Afforestation, and Green-washing the Nakba 4. Appropriating History: The Looting of Palestinian Records, Archives and Library Collections (1948-2011) 5. New History, Post-Zionism, the Liberal Coloniser and Hegemonic Narratives: A Critique of the Israeli 'New Historians' 6. Decolonising History and Narrating the Subaltern: Palestinian Oral History, Indigenous and Gendered Memories 7. Resisting Memoricide and Reclaiming Memory: The Politics of Nakba Commemoration among Palestinians inside Israel Epilogue: The Continuity of Trauma

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Book SynopsisPickers came from near and far year after year – and from a variety of backgrounds – for the berry-picking season. For local people, adults and children, it was an opportunity to supplement the family income; Glasgow folk combined it with a holiday. For the Scottish Traveller community it was an annual opportunity to meet up with friends and family, and forge new relationships. Roger Leitch encouraged many of those local berry pickers to share their recollections for this book – which is published at a time of political change with challenges for the soft fruit cultivation business. He also interviewed workers in other seasonal employments such as potato picking and ghillieing.Trade Review' … Fascinating material is presented throughout … The focus on the wide range of oral testimonies presented, mostly from a particular region of Scotland that has thus far not received in-depth attention in the wider historiography, means that the book offers important insights for the historical agenda.' Scottish Archives Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Caroline Milligan 1. Fieldwork and the Ethnologist 2. Seasonal Rural Employment 3. Life at the Tatties 4. Berryopolis 5. The Growth of the Raspberry Industry in Scotland by G. M. Hodge 6. Life Away From Home 7. At Home Notes Glossary Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA sweeping and comprehensive new oral history of the atomic bomb's creation and deployment, on the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Book SynopsisIn a radically new account of the importance of early Africa in global history, Gomez traces how Islam's growth in West Africa, along with intensifying commerce that included slaves, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region, culminating in the rise of empire.Trade Review"Winner of the ASA Book Prize (Herskovits), African Studies Association""Winner of the Martin A. Klein Prize, American Historical Association""One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018"

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Book SynopsisBringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food cultures of the world, historically and in contemporary times. The collection offers a range of fascinating case studies, including explorations of Italian food in colonial Ethiopia, traditional Cornish pasties in Mexico, migrant community gardeners in Toronto, and beer all around the world.In exploring the origins of the contemporary global food system and how we cook and eat today, Food Mobilities uncovers the local and global circulation of food, ingredients, cooks, commodities, labour, and knowledge.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mobility and the Making of World Cuisines Daniel E. Bender and Simone Cinotto Mobility and Its Discontents: Historical Perspectives on Cities and Food Systems from the Paleolithic to the Present Donna R. Gabaccia Part One: The Body and the Self 1. Mobility of Food and Ideas in Egypt: Between Sterilization and Inoculation Sara El-Sayed and Christy Spackman 2. Let’s Get Phygital: Food Representations on the Move Signe Rousseau 3. People-Plant Mobilities: Growing Bitter Melon and Bottle Gourd in Toronto Sarah Elton Part Two: Infrastructures and Pathways 4. Gastrofascism in the Empire: Food in Italian East Africa, 1935–1941 Simone Cinotto 5. The Fastest Food in the World: Airplane Cuisine and the “Taste of Pace” Elizabeth Zanoni 6. From Cloth Oil to Extra Virgin: Italian Olive Oil Before the Invention of the Mediterranean Diet Carl Ipsen 7. Mobile and Immobile Histories of Tea Jayeeta Sharma Part Three: Mobilities and Immobilities 8. Street Food and Street Life in Immigrant Enclaves: A Case Study of the Jews of the United States Hasia R. Diner 9. Rhythms of Mobility: How (Im)Mobility Shapes Rural Food Retail Practices in South Africa Elizabeth Hull 10. Immobility: Threats to the Livelihoods of the Poor Krishnendu Ray Part Four: Biodiversity, Taste, and Nation 11. From Cornish Pasties to Mexican Pastes: Mobilities across Time and Space Sandra C. Mendiola García 12. How the World Eats: Myra Waldo and the Around-the-World Cookbook Daniel E. Bender 13. Hop Movements: The Global Invention of Craft Beer Jeffrey M. Pilcher 14. Transnational Journeys and Biocultural Heritage: The Caribbean Food-Medicine Nexus Ina Vandebroek Coda: Food Mobilities in the Time of COVID-19 Locked Down: Writing about Food Mobility while Sheltering in Place Daniel E. Bender and Simone Cinotto

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Book SynopsisAmy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant examine the many ways in which the medieval past has been manipulated to promote discrimination, oppression, and murder. Tracing the fetish for medieval times behind toxic ideologies like nationalism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, misogyny, and white supremacy, Kaufman and Sturtevant show us how the Middle Ages have been twisted for political purposes in every century that followed. The Devil’s Historians casts aside the myth of an oppressive, patriarchal medieval monoculture and reveals a medieval world not often shown in popular culture: one that is diverse, thriving, courageous, compelling, and complex.Trade Review"This is an important overview of both extremism in society today and its use of medieval symbols, folktales, and rewritten history by groups to justify everything from degradation of women to racism to the arbitrary construct of two genders." -- Wendy J. Turner * Medievally Speaking *"With a strong and well-argued thesis, supported with plentiful details, this book should be read by those who teach medieval studies as a guide to the political minefield their area has become." -- S. Morillo, Wabash College * Choice *"For anyone keen to know how medievalist myths are used as weapons, this book is the place to start. It is also a mine of information and analysis for anyone wishing to research more deeply into the dangerous uses of medievalism." -- Helen Dell, The University of Melbourne * Parergon *"The Devil’s Historians is an accessible and quick introduction to many of the problems we confront in studying the medieval past in the twenty-first century, laying out both the stakes and some possible avenues of countering the use of history to support hate." -- Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Tech * The Public Historian *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Weaponizing History 1. The Middle Ages: Foundational Myths 2. Nationalism and Nostalgia 3. The “Clash of Civilizations” 4. White (Supremacist) Knights 5. Knights in Shining Armor and Damsels in Distress 6. Medievalism and Religious Extremism Epilogue: The Future of the Medieval Past Notes Further Reading

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Book Synopsis THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Incredibly evocative and compelling." - The Washington Post"The most moving and chilling oral history you will read." - The Times"Astonishing book about an astonishing, terrifying atrocity, relived in real time by those who were there. I read it in one sitting & was utterly gripped from start to finish." - Piers Morgan"The most vivid portrait of 9/11 I've ever read."- Mike Morell, former deputy director of the CIA** Updated 20th Anniversary edition with additional content **The Only Plane in the Sky is the first comprehensive oral history of 9/11, deftly woven and told in the voices of ordinary people grappling with extraordinary events.It begins predawn, where we meet airport staff who unknowingly usher terrorists onto their flights. From a secret bunker beneath the White House, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice watch for incoming planes on radar. At the Pentagon, officials feel a violent tremor as they come under attack. We hear the stories of the father and son working on separate floors in the North Tower; the firefighter who rushes there to search for his wife; the phone operator who keeps her promise to share a passenger's last words with his family; the chaplain who stays on the scene to perform last rites, losing his own life when the Twin Towers collapse.In New York, first responders confront a scene of unimaginable chaos. At the Pentagon generals break down and weep when they are barred from rushing into the burning building to try and rescue their colleagues.Drawing on never-before-published transcripts, declassified documents and interviews from nearly five hundred people, award-winning historian Garrett Graff skilfully tells the story of the day that changed all of our lives - as it was lived.The Only Plane in the Sky is a unique, profound, and searing exploration of humanity on a day that changed the course of history, and all of our lives, 20 years ago.

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, the powerful voices of Gulag survivors become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories, rather than written memoirs.Trade Review"Here the history of the Gulag is reflected in individual fates, the lives of the witnesses show clearly that the legacy of Stalinism is not overcome even decades after the dictator's death." - Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas "Scholars and students of Soviet history will appreciate the efforts of Gheith, Jolluck, and their team of knowledgeable interviewers to mine the memories often eroded by the passage of time of elderly survivors of Soviet repression. Composed of an introduction and 16 chapters, each containing an interview with a survivor preceded by several pages of historical context and analysis, Gulag Voices is a useful addition to a literature that has hitherto been dominated by the voices of intellectuals and academics. Recommended." - CHOICE "This is an engrossing book that lets the reader hear raw voices from the Gulag. It is at once fascinating, revealing, and sobering. Highly recommended." - Hiroaki Kuromiya, Professor of History, Indiana University at Bloomington"Gulag Voices is an extremely valuable, stimulating, and well-conceived work of oral history . . . The benefit of this work is that it allows readers direct access to the transcripts of the interviews and gives voice to a range of survivors who might never have thought to write about their experiences." - Miriam Dobson, Lecturer in Modern History, University of Sheffield, UK "Gheith and Jolluck's collection of riveting oral histories of returnees who could finally break their silence offers powerful testimony to the enduring legacy of state-sponsored repression. These personal, often heart-wrenching narratives educate us about life and death in and after the Gulag; they are an homage to survivors and those who did not survive." - Nanci Adler, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam "Eminent scholars Jehanne Gheith and Katherine Jolluck provide commentary and supplementary information that is at once sympathetic, respectful, and rigorously analytical. The result is a unique volume that explores not only the horrors of the Gulag experience, though that comes through in often frightful detail, but also the long term effects of survivors' attempts to remember the experience, make sense of the radical disconnect between official ideology and real life, and heal ruptured lives." - Steven A. Barnes, Associate Professor of History, George Mason UniversityTable of ContentsForced Laborers in the Perm Region Exiled and Arrested Children of Enemies Children of Enemies and Then Arrested Documents: Survivor Accounts and Letters

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive international collection reflects on the practice, purpose, and functionality of queer oral history, and in doing so demonstrates the vibrancy and innovation of this rapidly evolving field.Drawing on the roots of oral historyâs original commitment to history from below queer oral history has become an indispensable methodology at the heart of queer studies. Expanding and extending the existing canon, this book offers up key observations about queer oral history as a methodology, and how it might be advanced through cutting edge approaches. The collection contains a mix of contributions from established scholars, early career researchers, postgraduate students, archivists, and activists, ensuring its accessibility and wide appeal.The go-to reference for queer oral history for scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and community-engaged practitioners, New Directions in Queer Oral History advances rigorous methodological and theoreticTrade Review"This is a terrific collection: an outstanding volume of unusual breadth and depth, in a rapidly expanding field of inquiry. With a compelling foreword by Nan Alamilla Boyd, contextualising introduction by three co-editors, and nineteen chapters drawn from diverse oral history projects with innovative methodologies, the book ranges geographically from the country to the city, across Australia, Canada, UK, and US. It engages an astounding array of narrators, from LGBTQ+ children of Holocaust survivors to straight and gay nurses navigating the early AIDS crisis, from intersex and marriage equality activists to trans military veterans. In addition to complex accounts of shame, job loss, reticence, and dissemblance, they tell unforgettable stories of lives lived loud, proud, and against the grain.As gender and sexuality studies grows ever stronger and richer, these authors’ insights will guide students, inform colleagues, and empower community members for years to come. New Directions in Queer Oral History is an enormously important contribution to scholarship – and to queer cultures around the world."John Howard, King’s College London, UK"New Directions in Queer Oral History: Archives of Disruption reminds us why queer oral history is at the cutting edge of oral history practice and theory. Bringing together a diverse range of contributors working on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer histories in a variety of national contexts, this rich collection provokes us to think again about our practice of oral history and both the limits and radical potential of the stories we generate. Raising difficult questions such as whether it is necessary, or indeed enough, for interviewers to share an LGBTQ+ identity with narrators; how intergenerational dynamics shape both the interview and our wider sense of community and self; and how we respond to the ethical dilemmas of probing traumatic histories, this lively and intimate collection shows how far queer oral history has come and points to the productive and disruptive possibilities of this fascinating field."Rebecca Jennings, UCL, UK"New Directions in Queer Oral History is a great book for anyone conducting research on queer oral history. It gives wonderful advice on how to plan and carry out successful oral history interviews. It also helps you to prepare for the interviews and the obstacles you might encounter while interviewing LGBTQ people. Reading about the difficulties and possibilities in queer oral history also gives the reader insight into how to analyze the interviews and how to find a new level of nuance in them. New Directions in Queer Oral History is also a book that I would have needed when I started planning my MA thesis on Finnish trans history. I’m delighted to have this book as a guide now, as I am starting to work on my PhD thesis." - Jean Lukkarinen , University of TurkuTable of ContentsForeword Introduction: Archives of Disruption Part 1: Narrating LGBTQ Histories: Presence, Absence, and the Space Between 1. (Un)speakable Pasts: Reflections on Working at the Edges of Queer Oral History 2. Locating Lesbians, Finding “Gay Women,” Writing Queer Histories: Reflections on Oral Histories, Identity, and Community Memory 3. Queer Intergenerational Reticence: A Religious Case Study 4. Reading Both Ways: Lesbian Oral Histories and Bisexual Visibility 5. Finding “Evidence of Me” Through “Evidence of Us”: Transgender Oral Histories and Personal Archives Speak 6. Destabilising Identities and Normative Narratives: The Methodological Challenges of Navigating Oral History Interviews with LGBTQ+ Children of Holocaust Survivors Part 2: Re/making Meaning: Navigating Discourse, Composure and Intersubjectivity 7. Beyond Composure and Discomposure in a Shifting Queer Identity Narrative 8. “Fuck the Gay Movement”: Dissemblance and Desire in a Black AIDS Oral History 9. Unfinished Business: Documenting Australian Lesbian Feminism 10. Bisexual Women’s Storytelling and Community-building in Toronto 11. Filling the Boxes in Ourselves: Conducting a Queer Oral History of Bisexuality and Multiple-gender-attraction Part 3: Making a Queer Mess: Embodiment, Affect and Exceeding Our Limits 12. Towards a Queer-chronology: Telling Stories in the Queer/Ed Archives 13. “I Gotta Go”: Mobility as a Queer Methodology 14. LGBTIQ Activism and “Insider” Interviewing: Reflecting on Oral Histories from the Campaign for Australian Marriage Equality 15. In Search of Queer Composure: Queer Temporality, Intimacy and Affect Part 4: Negotiating Identity: Sharing Authority in Creative Practice 16. Dry Your Eyes, Princess: Oral Testimony and Photography – A Case Study 17. “It’s Telling Your Story to Your Family”: Why Positionality Matters When Interviewing an Older Lesbian for a Verbatim Play 18. An Army of Listeners: Interviewing Lesbians as a Practice of Liberation for All 19. “Free to Be Me”: Oral History Research with Lesbians and Bisexual Women Seeking Asylum in the UK

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Book SynopsisOral History and Qualitative Methodologies: Educational Research for Social Justice examines oral history methodological processes involved in the doing of oral history as well as the theoretical, historical, and knowledge implications of using oral history for social justice projects. Oral history in qualitative research is an umbrella term that integrates history, life history, and testimony accounts. Oral history draws from various social science disciplines, including educational studies, history, indigenous studies, sociology, anthropology, ethnic studies, women's studies, and youth studies. The book argues for the further development of a pedagogical culture related to oral history for educational research as part of the effort to diversify the range of human experiences educators, community members, and policy makers incorporate into knowledge-making and knowledge-using processes. Early career researchers, novice researchers, as well as exTable of ContentsSection 1: Introduction to the Theories and Methods of Oral History for Qualitative Researchers 1. Introduction to the Art and Science of Interdisciplinary Oral History 2. Theoretical, Methodological, and Ethical Issues in Oral History Projects Section 2: Educational Biography and Life History 3. Recording History as Lived and Experienced in the CSRA: Oral History, Methodological Considerations and Educational Opportunities 4. "Bone by Bone": Re(collecting) Stories of Black Female Student Activists at Fayetteville State Using Oral History Interviews with a Life History Approach 5. The Need for Action: Oral Histories of The 2018 Oklahoma Teacher Walkout 6. La Familia Ortiz: Parental Influence on the Pursuit of Higher Education 7. COVID-19 Oral Histories of Academic Leaders, Faculty, and Students in Higher Education Section 3: Archival and Secondary Data Analysis 8. The Layers of Oral Histories at Memorial Museums: Chronicles About Who We Are and Who We Are Likely to Become 9. Irene Bishop Goggans: Community Historian of African American Life using Scrapbooks for Social Justice Section 4: Arts-Based Educational Research 10. Teachers and North American Migrants’ Oral Histories Concerning the 'School for All' Arts-based Project 11. Oral History of a Civil Rights Leader using Music and Dance Section 5: Digital storytelling, Podcasts, Vlogs, and Social Media 12. My Story, My Voice: student podcasts examining oral histories on diversity in East Central Indiana 13. Engaging Participatory Visual Methodologies in Oral History Research Section 6: Concluding Chapter/Epilogue 14. Methodological and Pedagogical Opportunities for Oral History

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Book SynopsisFamily Oral History Across the World presents a process for memorializing family histories, bringing together established oral history standards, exploratory research, and narrative data analysis.Based on and using a prequestionnaire and over 40 recorded interviews with people from across six continents, the analysis system used in the book presents material from these interviews that brings alive the experience of the family history journey. One of the guiding principles is to encourage readers to interview family members, but also others outside the family unit, and to produce a family history in whatever format works. The book illustrates this through the inclusion of many unusual formats and stories uncovered. The book is divided into a number of themes that emerged through the analysis of numerical questionnaire and narrative interview data. Parts I, II, and III cover changing family demography, case studies, and factors such as memory, emotion, and ethics. Part ITrade Review'For those interested in capturing their family history before it is lost, this book is the most complete, detailed guide one could desire. Dr. Gordon covers everything from planning to interviewing to media capture; her case studies demonstrate how important such histories can be to descendants seeking to understand their own identities.'Dorothy Leonard, Harvard Business School, USA‘Oral history is a valuable but still underused resource for family history. I would recommend this book to anyone considering its use, both for the wider context in which it is presented and explained here, and the wealth of practical and ethical guidance that it offers.’Cynthia Brown, Freelance Oral Historian, UK'Mary Gordon's book Family Oral History Across the World has finally provided future authors who wish to write their family's story with a step-by-step guide to how to go about it. Mary Gordon has skillfully added fascinating examples of the ways people from various parts of the world have embarked on writing about their families' past and what they have learnt from this experience, weaving these into her 5-phase approach to writing a successful family oral history.'Deirdre Pirro, Journalist and Attorney, The Florentine Newspaper, Italy'Kudos to Dr. Contini-Gordon for her well researched new book on family histories. It is full of enlightening interviews and insights.'Jo Ann Emmerich, TV and Media Executive‘“Family Oral History Across the World” is a fascinating treatise on how the memory of our ancestors is retained for future generations. The book provides a most valuable service.’primo, 2023, p.53 http://www.onlineprimo.comTable of ContentsTable of ContentsFOREWORDMAP OF MAJOR LOCATIONSPREFACEPART I: ORAL HISTORY APPLIED TO FAMILY HISTORYCHAPTER 1: ORAL HISTORY AS PART OF FAMILY HISTORYFamily History Defined by Families and by Those Who Study ThemThe Role of Oral History for a Family HistoryFamily Oral History as a Research MethodologyMemoirs, Autobiographies, BiographiesWhy Stories MatterA note on the author’s family in a wide, wide worldCHAPTER 2: WHAT MAKES A FAMILY? WHO SAYS?The Real-time Concept of FamilyFrom Exploratory Research for This Book, Who Says?From Census DataMulti-generations, More Interview OpportunitiesInternal Country DifferencesA note on the author’s family in a multigenerational world.CHAPTER 3: KINSHIP IN CHANGING DEMOGRAPHIESCensus Data Combined with Other SourcesBackdrop Research to Give ContextWhat Different Types of Families Have to SayAlternative family? It never felt like one!Not Married, with ChildrenThe Possible Impact of GenderStep or Blended Families:Friends and Other AssociatesSingle PeopleA note on the author’s friends like familyPART II: CASE STUDIESCHAPTER 4: SMALL BUSINESS AND CAREER FAMILIESSmall Business FamiliesThe BakersThe World on WheelsMarket GardenersCareer FamiliesNational Park Service FamiliesScientist MusiciansMine WorkersA note on the author’s family agricultural roots transplantedCHAPTER 5: THE COLD CASE OF A LOST PLANTATION FAMILYOral History Challenged by SilenceA View Across BoundariesGetting Away from FamilyBreaking Silence to Find Family and Family HistoryGetting StartedFinding Grandmother and Her FamilyFinding Aunt Ella’s Blue BloodsFinding His Biological FatherThe Ancestry of TensquatawaAcademic Research: Effects of Slavery on Descendants of Plantation SlavesLost Census DataDemographic Studies and Discoveries, Plantation EffectsA Plantation Descendant on the Plantation Effect Over GenerationsA Plantation Descendant on the Value and Validity of Oral HistoryAuthor’s Note: A Freeze Frame ConnectionCHAPTER 6: INDIGENOUS FAMILIES OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWESTSpecial TerminologyFamily And Lineage Histories of California Mission IndiansOvercoming Stereotypes and ExtinctionThe Mission Context and Challenges to Family HistoryThe Role of Mission San Fernando Rey as a Lost and FoundOral Tradition and DNA: Do They Concur?Years Later, Changes Affecting Mission Indian Family HistoryFamily Histories in Yaqui CommunitiesTrilingual Family Oral Histories of the Pasqua YaquiVoices from Penjamo, another Yaqui CommunityMeeting, Listening, SearchingIteration to TrustProtocols of Navajo Family Oral HistoryToward Indigenizing Family Oral HistoryEffect of Boarding School on Language and HistoryInterviewing Family Members, the Importance of Place and ProtocolPassing the Stories OnAuthor’s Note: Where did they all go?CHAPTER 7: FAMILIES FROM WAR-TORN, POVERTY-STRICKEN, AND/OR OPPRESSIVE REGIMESFamily Voices, Escaping, Remembering, Moving OnRemembering a German Grandma, Research to Prevent Another HolocaustWartime Effects on Australian Market GardenersA Japanese American Family Experiences and the Passage of TimeComing from Poland under Soviet RuleFrom Vietnam to France, Leaving the Fear BehindComing from Mexico: Murder, Poverty, PTSD, and a Matriarch’s InterventionsOrphaned in the Philippines to a Cross World FamilyFrom the Warm Seychelles to Snowy CanadaSummary Statement from a Dedicated LifeAuthor’s Note: On Behalf of DreamsPART III: FAMILY HISTORY MEMORY, EMOTION, AND ETHICSCHAPTER 8: THE ROLE OF MEMORY IN FAMILY ORAL HISTORYQuick Examples of Memory Sources and their Range of EmotionsTypes of Memory Especially Important to Family Oral HistoryFamily Memory, Autobiographical MemoryCollective, Public, Historical, Individual MemoriesLong Term Memory SubsetsFamily Memory in PracticeChildhood MemoryOral Historical: Making Family Memories in Nontraditional WaysPointers from an Oral Historian Working in Hospital Palliative CarePointers from a Speech Pathologist Working in Home Care SettingsThe Reliability and Validity of MemoriesAuthor’s Note: The Purple ChairChapter 9: THE EMOTIONAL CONTINUUM IN FAMILY ORAL HISTORIESEmotion in This Book’s QuotesStudies About Emotional Content in InterviewsTrauma, PTSD, and Triggering Traumatic MemoryAwareness on the Sadder Side of the Emotional ContinuumSharing Salient Memories or NotCollective Memory with Silence, Secrets, Resilience and KinshipAccessing Family History Interviews, Listener EffectsOn the Positive Side of the Continuum: Pride, Joy, Gratitude ,and MoreAuthor’s Note: A Salient Memory Down the ChuteChapter 10: THE ETHICS OF FAMILY ORAL HISTORYStarting with Informed ConsentEthics Considered by IntervieweesFrom Dialogs on Navigating the Ethics of Family Oral HistoryA Professor in Dialog: What is Ethics?Ethical, Legal, or Moral?Autonomy and DignityTrust and FairnessMulticultural ConsiderationsSpecial Situations and Family DynamicsA Practitioner in Dialog: Quandaries in Family Oral HistoryA Secret?Embarrassment and Secrets?Summary Dialog: Learning EthicsAuthor’s Note: PinocchioPART IV: INTRODUCTION TO A FAMILY ORAL HISTORY PROCESS AND APPLICATIONA Process OutlinedWorking with the FamilyCHAPTER 11: PHASE ONE, GETTING STARTED AND ORGANIZEDLeadership Roles: Anchor, TeamScope and ObjectivesConsent Forms, Family Trees, Outlines and Interviews, at the StartAuthor’s Note: Inside the Family TreeCHAPTER 12: PHASE ONE, ORGANIZING TECHNOLOGYOral History Recording Technologies with Voices of ExpertsTechnology and its Back-up SystemsAudio or Video?Another View on VideoAbout Training for Recording InterviewsVideo OptionsOn-the-road TechnologyAuthor’s Note: Zoom for the HolidaysCHAPTER 13: PHASE ONE, LEARNING ABOUT ARCHIVINGA Tour of ArchivesFamily Established Archives: Chinese, Chiriaco, MoultonWestern Reserve Historical Society Steeped in ContextLDS Church ArchivesNational Park Service Multigenerational Family HistoriesCommunity Archives, EnglandSilent Military Museum Archives, CaliforniaArchiving Family History: The BasicsStarter Filing System that Becomes an Oral History ArchiveNDMS, Interview Data as a Searchable Working File and Early ArchiveCost ConsiderationsAuthor’s Note: A Bridge and a Voice in the Archived BoxCHAPTER 14: PHASE TWO, INTERVIEWINGThe Interview Tenets from the Writings of Oral HistoriansThe Interview ReconsideredPreparing and Conducting Family History InterviewsExample: The Initial InterviewExample: The Significant Memories InterviewExample: The Series of Interviews by Time Periods and/or by SitesExample: Specialized InterviewsWho Gets Interviewed?Context and Fact CheckingProgress ReviewsAuthor’s Note, A Grandma’s Role in InterviewsCHAPTER 15: PHASE TWO, TEXTUALIZING FAMILY VOICES IN CONTEXTAbout Family Oral History TranscriptionsOther Approaches to TranscribingEditorial InterventionEditorial Integration Beyond WordsEditorial Integration over a GenerationAuthor’s Note: Family Over Time and PlaceCHAPTER 16: PHASES THREE, FOUR, FIVE: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER, INTEGRATING, WRITING/SCRIPTING, SHARINGThe Roles of Interviews with other Sources.Weaving Multiple Stories into a HistoryIntegrating VisualsWays of Sharing Family Oral HistoryClosing Thoughts from Four Elders and Two YoungersEPILOGUE: AN ETHICS DIALOGUE ACROSS THE OCEANAn Ethics of CareReconciling differing narrativesThe integrity of the narrativeFamily secrets or new informationWhere will family history interviews be shared?Promoting the Persistence of MemoryAppendix A: Interview Recognitions, Document and Online SourcesRecorded InterviewsNon recorded Interviews, Phone Conversations, Emails, and MailBooks and Book Chapters Consulted and/or CitedPresentationsArticles CitedSelected Electronic Sites from those MentionedAppendix B: Oral History Resources, Training Sites, and Archives MentionedSome Oral History Online Training and Related TopicsSome Oral History and Related Organizations on EthicsSelected Archives from those MentionedTV and Online Interviews with the AuthorAppendix C Exploratory Research Plans, Forms, ResultsSummary of Exploratory Research ApproachPreliminary ResultsPre-Interview Checkbox Survey FormSummary of the Checkbox Survey ResultsPre-interview Questionnaire FormAppendix D: Example Family Tree with Family AdviceAdvice on Family HistoryAppendix E: Table of FiguresAcknowledgementsIndex TBDAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisA primary mode for the creation and dissemination of poetry in Renaissance Italy was the oral practice of singing and improvising verse to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument. Singing to the Lyre is the first comprehensive study of this ubiquitous practice, which was cultivated by performers ranging from popes, princes, and many artists, to professionals of both mercantile and humanist background. Common to all was a strong degree of mixed orality based on a synergy between writing and the oral operations of memory, improvisation, and performance. As a cultural practice deeply rooted in language and supported by ancient precedent, cantare ad lyram (singing to the lyre) is also a reflection of Renaissance cultural priorities, including the status of vernacular poetry, the study and practice of rhetoric, the oral foundations of humanist education, and the performative culture of the courts reflected in theatrical presentations and Castiglione''s Il cortegiano.Trade Review'For many years Blake Wilson has tantalised us with a string of articles on singers of improvised verse in Italy in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Now, with this important and wide-ranging book, we come to know the world of the cantarini, from simple street singers to accomplished improvisers of versified epics performing in public, to refined singers 'to the lyre', without whom no festivity or banquet was complete. Drawing on a wide range of materials, Wilson is able to trace the lives of the famous canterini in surprising detail. Along the way, we learn of the longevity of the chanson de geste; the attraction of blind singers to the profession; the role of memory in improvisation; the art of performing extempore verse; the question of improvised verse as intellectual property; and above all, the central figure of Orpheus, in philosophy, religion, poetry, theatre, and music.' Bonnie J. Blackburn, Wolfson College, OxfordTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Civic Tradition: The Art of the Canterino: 1. Early history: Ioculatores and Giullari; 2. The Trecento Canterino; Excersus 1: Piazza San Martino: performance, urban space, and audience; 3. The Canterino in the fifteenth century; Part II. The Humanist Tradition: Cantare ad Lyram: 4. Florence: from Canterino to Cantare ad Lyram; Excursus 2: Filippino Lippi's portrait of a Canterino; 5. Cantare ad Lyram and humanist education; 6. Cantare ad Lyram in the courts; 7. Rome: Cantare ad Lyrum at the summit; Epilogue: the sixteenth century.

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Book SynopsisModern languages like English, Spanish, Russian and Hindi as well as ancient languages like Greek, Latin and Sanskrit all belong to the Indo-European language family, which means that they all descend from a common ancestor. But how, more precisely, are the Indo-European languages related to each other? This book brings together pioneering research from a team of international scholars to address this fundamental question. It provides an introduction to linguistic subgrouping as well as offering comprehensive, systematic and up-to-date analyses of the ten main branches of the Indo-European language family: Anatolian, Tocharian, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic. By highlighting that these branches are saliently different from each other, yet at the same time display striking similarities, the book demonstrates the early diversification of the Indo-European language family, spoken today by half the world''s population. This title is also Table of Contents1. Introduction Thomas Olander; 2. Methodology in linguistic subgrouping James Clackson; 3. Computational approaches to linguistic chronology and subgrouping Dariusz Piwowarczyk; 4. What we can (and can't) learn from computational cladistics Don Ringe; 5. Anatolian Alwin Kloekhorst; 6. Tocharian Michaël Peyrot; 7. Italo-Celtic Michael Weiss; 8. Italic Michael Weiss; 9. Celtic Anders Richardt Jørgensen; 10. Germanic Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen & Guus Jan Kroonen; 11. Greek Lucien van Beek; 12. Armenian Birgit Anette Olsen & Rasmus Thorsø; 13. Albanian Adam Hyllested & Brian D. Joseph; 14. Indo-Iranian Martin Joachim Kümmel; 15. Balto-Slavic Tijmen Pronk.

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Book SynopsisWhere exactly is queer England? There has been much discussion of London as a queer city, but what about the many thousands of queer lives lived elsewhere? From Manchester's bars and nightclubs, to Brighton's seafront, the attractions of Leeds to the dockside delights of Plymouth, in Queer Beyond London two leading LGBTQ historians will take you on a journey through four cities with rich and diverse queer histories. They show how geography, size, economy, city government and local history and culture shaped LGBTQ life in these places, each city forging a vibrant queer culture of its own. Using the pioneering community histories that have been produced in each of these cities, and including the voices of queer people who have made their lives there, the book tells local stories to change our national history. -- .Trade Review‘A rich celebration of the everyday LGBTQ stories that have been shaped by - and have helped to shape - modern English urban life. Insightful, inspiring, and completely fascinating.’ Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet and The Paying Guests‘Being queer is all about change: longing for it, fighting for it - and surviving it. This brilliantly detailed tour of the last fifty years of LGBTQ+ culture and lives in four great English cities digs down through the layers of history and geography and gets to the real nuts and bolts of our experiences. A real labour of love - and quite an achievement.’ Neil Bartlett, author of Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall and Address Book‘This is a book I didn’t know we needed quite so badly! It provides a riveting account of LGBTQ+ people forging new lives, creating new communities, and navigating prejudice and discrimination. It is beautifully written, and a splendid example of how oral history enriches previously untold stories.’ Dr Clare Summerskill, academic, writer and comedian‘This book took me back to my teenage years in Brighton, Manchester, Leeds, Bristol and beyond where I sought out the bars where I could belong even though elsewhere we were illegal. A world of laughter, despair, love, openness, belonging and making whoopee.’ Michael Cashman, actor, founder member of Stonewall, and member of the House of Lords ‘History should never tell just one story, and this timely book challenges the reader to think beyond a single, London-centric timeline of queer history in England since the 1960s. A ‘must-read’ for cultural historians, queer or not.’ Jane Traies, author of The Lives of Older Lesbians: Sexuality, Identity and the Life Course, and Now You See Me: Lesbian Life Stories? ‘This book tells a fascinating and compelling story. It takes us to places we know and love, and to some we didn’t know so much about. It tells local stories, personal stories, human stories. It completes the nation’s queer jigsaw. It’s a must-read.’ Chris Smith, Britain’s first openly gay MP, former cabinet minister, and member of the House of Lords'This is a rich and thought-provoking study which provides a more nuanced and more representative history that challenges national narratives and draws our attention to how locality not only shaped queer life in the past, but also emotions, memory, and community in the present. The methodology, rigorous research, and attention to hitherto overlooked stories, people, and places that underpin this book makes it an important contribution to the field, and one that should stimulate exciting further research into Britain’s queer past beyond London.'CLAIRE MARTIN, Northern History -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction SECTION I: QUEER CITIES by Matt Cook 1. Brighton 2. Leeds 3. Manchester 4. Plymouth SECTION 2: QUEER COMPARISONS by Alison Oram 5. Movement and Migration 6. Queer Homes, Households and Families 7. Queer Uses of the Past Epilogue: The Cities Compared Select biblio Index -- .

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Book SynopsisAfterlives of war documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations who grew up in Australia, Britain and Germany after the First World War. Although they were not direct witnesses to the conflict, they experienced its effects from their earliest years. Based on ninety oral history interviews and observation during the First World War Centenary, this pioneering study reveals the contribution of descendants to the contemporary memory of the First World War, and the intimate personal legacies of the conflict that animate their history-making.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Researcher1 The evidence of afterlives 2 Family transmissionPart II: Observer3 National narratives in the Centenary 4 Meeting in No Man’s Land: motives for remembrance – Michael Roper and Rachel Duffett Part II: Historian5 Fathers and the habits of home 6 Playing at war and being at war 7 Daughters, care and citizenship Part IV: Descendant8 Father and son on Bob’s war 9 Dysentery and the Anzac Legend10 Legacies of dysentery 11 Stomaching peace EpilogueIndex

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Book SynopsisNineteenth and early twentieth century Reading prospered from the canal, the railway, brewing and biscuit making, but massive population growth in the middle years of the nineteenth century brought with it many problems. Coley Talking lifts the lid on a dark aspect of Reading’s, and England’s, history. Memories, photographs, maps and archives, tell the story of how life was lived in one of its poorest communities. All the symptoms of extreme poverty – workhouses, chronic disease, insanitary back-to-back housing – are revealed in shocking, ‘this is what life was like’ detail. But change was on the way: ragged schools, sanitation, the work of socialist councillors Harry and Lorenzo Quelch, and the early days of the local Labour party, together with a strong and resilient community spirit all played their parts. Through the microcosm of Coley we are shown the transformations brought about by slum clearance, the NHS, state education and the work of trade unions, and can appreciate the initiatives which make life better today.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores a central methodological issue at the heart of studies of the histories of children and childhood. It questions how we understand the perspectives of children in the past, and not just those of the adults who often defined and constrained the parameters of youthful lives. Drawing on a range of different sources, including institutional records, interviews, artwork, diaries, letters, memoirs, and objects, this interdisciplinary volume uncovers the voices of historical children, and discusses the challenges of situating these voices, and interpreting juvenile agency and desire. Divided into four sections, the book considers children's voices in different types of historical records, examining children's letters and correspondence, as well as multimedia texts such as film, advertising and art, along with oral histories, and institutional archives.Table of ContentsChapter 1 – Hearing Children’s Voices: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges by Nell Musgrove, Carla Pascoe Leahy and Kristine Moruzi.- Part I: Children’s Letters and Correspondence.- Chapter 2 – Children’s Voices in the Boy’s Own Paper and the Girl’s Own Paper, 1800-1900 by Shih-Wen Sue Chen and Kristine Moruzi.- Chapter 3 – Where ‘Taniwha’ met ‘Colonial Girl’: The Social Uses of the Nom de Plume in New Zealand Youth Correspondence Pages, 1880-1920 by Anna Gilderdale.- Chapter 4 – “Dear Monsieur Administrator”: Student Writing and the Question of ‘Voice’ in Early Colonial Senegal by Kelly Duke Bryant.- Chapter 5 – “Str[a]ight from My Heart”: Black Lives, Affective Citizenship, and 1960s American Politics by Susan Eckelmann Berghel.- Part II: Images of the Self.- Chapter 6 – Children’s Art: Histories and Cultural Meanings of Creative Expression by Displaced Children by Mary Tomsic.- Chapter 7 – Karen B., and Indigenous Girlhood on the Prairies: Disrupting the Images of Indigenous Children in Adoption Advertising in North America by Allyson Stevenson.- Chapter 8 – ‘Share the Shame’: Curating the Child’s Voice in Mortified Nation! by Kate Douglas.- Part III: Remembered Voices.- Chapter 9 – Oral Histories and Enlightened Witnessing by Deidre Michell.- Chapter 10 – “Basically you were either a mainstream sort of person or you went to the Leadmill and the Limit”: Understanding Post-War Youth Culture through Oral History by Sarah Kenny.- Part IV: Speaking Back to Institutions.- Chapter 11 – Muffled Voices: Recovering Children’s Voices from England’s Social Margins by Greg T. Smith.- Chapter 12 – Revolutionary Successors: Deviant Children and Youth in the People’s Republic of China, 1956-1966 by Melissa Brzycki.- Chapter 13 – Lost and Found: Counter-Narratives of Dis/Located Children by Frank Golding and Jacqueline Z. Wilson.

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Book SynopsisThis book uncovers the history of a group of Jewish workers and merchants in the Amsterdam diamond industry during the Holocaust. They and their families were exempt from deportation for a long time, but were eventually deported to Bergen-Belsen. In the end, almost all of the men perished, and the women barely survived slave-labour. Their children were left to die in the camp, but were miraculously saved by the intervention of a Jewish Polish woman, ‘nurse Luba’. The main sources on which this book is based are video testimonies of the surviving members of this group, personal interviews, minutes of interviews taken down in shorthand shortly after the war, and personal documents such as letters, archival documents, and autobiographical books.Table of Contents1. Background and Overview of the History.- 2. Amsterdam, 1940-1943.- 3. Westerbork and Vught.-4. Bergen Belsen.- 5. Sachsenhausen.- 6. Beendorf.- 7. The Children and Nurse Luba.- 8. Liberation.- 9. Picking up Life after the War.- 10. Reunion.- 11. The Complexities of Memory.

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Book SynopsisA pioneering work in oral history, this book tells the story of the rise and fall of the industrial revolution and the apogee and crisis of the labor movement through an oral history of Terni, a steel town in Central Italy and the seat of the first large industrial enterprise in Italy. This story is told through a combination of stories, songs, myths and memories from over 200 voices of five generations, woven with a wealth of archival material. Trade Review“Biography of an Industrial Town is an ironclad book that is essential reading for everyone interested in oral history, the politics of resistance, and the privileging of the testimonies of narrators.” (William Burns, The Oral History Review, Vol. 46 (2), 2019)Table of ContentsPart I1. Introduction: Speaking, Writing and Remembering2. The Red and the Black: Rebels, Patriots and Outlaws3. How Green Was My Valley: Feudal Landlords and Struggling Peasants4. How Steel Was Forged: The Making of a Working Class5. Rebels: Socialists, Anarchists and the Subversive Tradition6. The Iron Heel, or, We Didn't Have Any Trouble: The Coming of Fascism7. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Surviving and Resisting Fascism8. Apocalypse Now: War, Hunger and Mass Destruction9. Red Is the Color: The Gramsci Brigade10. The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Economic Boom and Industrial Crisis11. Staying Alive: The Rise of Alternative CulturesPart II: Specialty Steel12. David and Goliath: The Town, the Factory and the Strike13. The Workers and the World: Terni Steel in the Age of Globalization14. The Empire Strikes Back: The Town, the Factory and the Strike: Reprise15. A Tale of Two Cities: Death, Survival and Powerlessness in the Neo-Liberal Age16. Epilogue: Working-Class Sublime.

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Book SynopsisM?ori oral tradition is the rich, poetic record of the past handed down by voice over generations through whakapapa, whakatauk?, k?rero and waiata. In genealogies and sayings, histories, stories and songs, M?ori tell of 'te ao tawhito' or the old world: the gods, the migration of the Polynesian ancestors from Hawaiki and life here in Aotearoa.A voice from the past, today this remarkable record underpins the speeches, songs and prayers performed on marae and the teaching of tribal genealogies and histories. Indeed, the oral tradition underpins M?ori culture itself.This book introduces readers to the distinctive oral style and language of the traditional compositions, acknowledges the skills of the composers of old and explores the meaning of their striking imagery and figurative language. And it shows how ng? k?rero tuku iho - the inherited words - can be a deep well of knowledge about the way of life, wisdom and thinking of the M?ori ancestors.

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Book SynopsisThis book sheds new light on the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt, drawing on a remarkable set of oral histories gathered in the 1950s from those who knew him. Remembering Theodore Roosevelt presents fourteen intimate interviews with Roosevelt’s friends, family, and contemporaries. Never before published, the transcripts reveal colorful details about the infamous Rough Riders, the political scene in New York City, the lives of his extended family, including the Hyde Park Roosevelts Franklin and Eleanor, and how the former president inspired successive generations. The book benefits from the author’s discerning annotations and commentary that provide the reader with lesser-known facts and a full appreciation of the oral history project. Trade Review“The book also includes a list of the interviews, when and where they occurred, and the archives where intrepid researchers can find them.” (Michael Patrick Cullinane, History News Network, historynewsnetwork.org, December 19, 2021)Table of Contents1 Introduction Part I Family 2 The Other Washington Monument: Alice RooseveltLongworth 3 From Hyde Park to Oyster Bay: Helen RooseveltRobinson 4 The Next Generation: William and Margaret Cowles andCorinne Alsop Cole 5 First Lady of the World: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt 6 The Scions of Sagamore Hill: Ethel Roosevelt Derby andEleanor Butler Roosevelt Contentsviii ContentsPart II Neighbors 7 A Grande Dame: Georgiana Farr Sibley 8 The Worst Friend of the Worst Boy: Barclay H. Farr Part III Political Disciples 9 The Political Backroom: William M. Chadbourne 10 That Tammany Boy: Henry Root Stern, Sr. 11 Secondhand Memories: Murray T. Quigg 12 The Account of a College Man: Karl H. Behr 13 When Trumpets Call: Stanley M. Isaacs Part IV Brothers in Arms 14 Roosevelt’s Enduring Legacy: Frederick Trubee Davison 15 The Last Rough Rider: Jesse Langdon

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Book SynopsisA compelling oral history of the 2009-11 strike action carried out by cabin crew workers against British Airways.Trade Review'Deserves to be read by everyone interested in building a better world for workers' -- Paul Mason, author of 'PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future''Unique ... it lays bare cabin crew emotions ranging from the sense of injustice, anger, fears and anxieties to the joy and sense of liberation that can come from collective organisation' -- Maxine Peake, Actress and Writer'This excellent book is a timely reminder that strikes and conflict remain enduring features of UK industrial relations. The authors make a significant theoretical and empirical contribution to our understanding of the meanings of strike action from the perspective of strikers themselves, and to our knowledge of strikes generally' -- Richard Hyman, author of 'Understanding European Trade Unionism: Between Market, Class and Society'Table of ContentsList of Photographs Acknowledgements Foreword by Len McCluskey Preface by Duncan Holley Timeline 1. Introduction 2. Cabin Crew Collectivism 3. Project Columbus 4. Balloting, the Right to Strike and British Airways Counter-Mobilisation 5. Collective Organisation: The XXXX Campaign 6. Outcomes: Worlds Turned Upside Down 7. Conclusion Afterword by John Hendy QC Appendix: The Participants Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe story of the worst ship disasters in history, of ships sunk in the Baltic between January and May 1945.

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Book SynopsisOpening up Carolingian history to a new generation, this book draws on recently translated primary sources to examine the collapse of an early medieval kingdom.Table of ContentsList of Figures Abbreviations Key Individuals Introduction 1. King Lothar II Grants Winebert an Immunity, November 856 2. A Coin of King Lothar II (Undated) 3. The Quierzy Letter, November 858 4. The Remiremont Liber Memorialis “Royal Entry,” December 861 5. The Council of Aachen, 29 April 862 6. The Summit at Savonnières, November 862 7. Bishop Adventius Writes to Archbishop Theutgaud, Early 863 8. King Lothar II Grants a Church to the Convent of St-Pierre in Lyon, 18 May 863 9. Bishop Adventius Reforms the Monastery of Gorze, June 863 10. Eberhard and Gisela Make a Will, c. 863 11. Bishop Adventius Writes to Pope Nicholas, Early 864 12. The Bishops of Lotharingia Write to the West Frankish Bishops, c. 865 13. King Lothar II Grants Queen Theutberga Lands, 17 January 866 14. Pope Nicholas Writes about Waldrada to the Bishops of Gaul, Germany, and Italy, 13 June 866 15. Queen Ermentrude’s Coronation, 25 August 866 16. Pope Nicholas I Writes to King Charles the Bald, 25 January 867 17. Bishop Adventius Organizes Prayers against the Northmen, Summer 867 18. The Metz Oath, c. 868 19. King Lothar II Writes to Archbishop Ado of Vienne, July 869 20. Pope Hadrian II Writes to the Lotharingian Aristocracy, 5 September 869 21. The Sacramentary of Metz, 869 22. Emperor Louis II Writes to Emperor Basil I of Byzantium, Early 871 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSelected from a conference on Aboriginal oral traditions, these essays cover three broad Subject areas: oral traditions and knowledge of the environment, economy, education, and/or health of communities; oral traditions and the continuance of Language and culture; and the effects of intellectual property rights, electronic media, and public discourse on oral traditions.

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Book SynopsisThe 1970s were the era of the three-day week, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the winter of discontent, trade union Bolshevism and wildcat strikes. Through sitcoms, Raising Laughter provides a fresh look at one of our most divisive and controversial decades. Aside from providing entertainment to millions of people, the sitcom is a window into the culture of the day.Many of these sitcoms tapped into the decade’s sense of cynicism, failure and alienation, providing much-needed laughter for the masses. Shows like Rising Damp and Fawlty Towers were classic encapsulations of worn-out, run-down Britain, while the likes of Dad’s Army looked back sentimentally at a romanticised English past.For the first time, the stories behind the making of every sitcom from the 1970s are told by the actors, writers, directors and producers who made them all happen. This is nostalgia with a capital N, an oral history, the last word, and an affectionate salute to the kind of comedy programme that just isn’t made anymore.

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Book SynopsisThis oral history of London''s East End spans the period after the First World War to the upsurge of prosperity at the beginning of the 60s - a time which saw fresh waves of immigrants in the area, the Fascist marches of the 30s and its spirited recovery after virtual obliteration during the Blitz. Piers Dudgeon has listened to dozens of people who remember this fiercely proud quarter to record their real-life experiences of what it was like before it was fashionable to buy a home in the Docklands. 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.

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