Based on nearly 200 personal testimonies from the Imperial War Museum's Collections, this book tells the stories of those of those who participated in anti-war protest from the First World War 1914-18 to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is a human story, essential for understanding war in its entirety.
Beginning with the origins of Western civilisation, this title traces the invention of the idea of a white race - often for economic, scientific and political ends. It shows how American identity in the eighteenth century was intrinsically tied to the elevation of white skin into the embodiment of beauty, power and intelligence.
Includes grandparents and great-grandparents who sum up in their own words the vast changes that have overtaken China's people over a century. This book is also at once a journey by the author through time and place, and a memorial to those who have lived through war and civil war, persecution, invasion, revolution, famine, and, Westernization.
Presents the stories of forty individuals, from 17 different tribes, representing 11 nations of North America: Miami, Potawatomi, Delaware, Shawnee, Peoria, Oneida, Ottawa, Winnebago, Sac and Fox, Chippewa, and Kickapoo. This book speaks of the urgency for making room for multiple voices drawn from many traditions.
This work attempts to breathe life into a now close to forgotten period of Scottish life before th effects of centralisation came into force. The stories contained within draw on the recollections of over thirty inhabitants from the Kinross-shire area.
The author poses questions relating to names, nicknames, rumours, conspiracy theories and jokes and graffiti, and taps into oral history to shed light on oral history itself and on Palestinian-Jordanian relations, issues of identity, the Palestinian Intifada and the peace process.
The author poses questions relating to names, nicknames, rumours, conspiracy theories and jokes and graffiti, and taps into oral history to shed light on oral history itself and on Palestinian-Jordanian relations, issues of identity, the Palestinian Intifada and the peace process.
A definitive television work on the Second World War. It set out to tell the story of the war through the testimony of key participants - from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals. First broadcast in 1973, the result was an irreplaceable record since many of the eyewitnesses captured on film did not have long to live.
Offers historic recordings of celebrated people, who were active from the early days of sound recording to the middle of the 20th century. This second volume covers four major areas of interest - the arts, the sciences, sport and exploration. Two CDs with this book explain the background and history of each item, together with translations.
This work offers a historical documentation, by means of personal testimonies from more than 150 Germans, of the rise of Adolf Hitler. Well-known figures such as Manfred Rommel and Helmut Kohl, former soldiers and ordinary civilians, and victims of the Nazi regime all contribute.
Includes writing by women from Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand - and from unsung nurses and relief workers as well as celebrated writers. Bringing together extracts from memoirs, letters, diaries and poems, this collection provides an overview of the Spanish Civil War from the perspective of women participants.
In this collection of oral histories, four Indian elders recount their life stories in their own quiet but uncompromising words. The authors are Stella Pretty Sounding Flute and Iola Columbus (Dakota) and Celane Not Help Him and Cecelia Hernadez Montgomery (Lakota).
In this collection of oral histories, four Indian elders recount their life stories in their own quiet but uncompromising words. The authors are Stella Pretty Sounding Flute and Iola Columbus (Dakota) and Celane Not Help Him and Cecelia Hernadez Montgomery (Lakota).