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Namibia's Red Line - The History of a Veterinary and Settlement Border (Hardcover, 2012 ed.): G. Miescher Namibia's Red Line - The History of a Veterinary and Settlement Border (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
G. Miescher
R1,558 Discovery Miles 15 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Based on archival sources and oral history, this book reconstructs a border-building process in Namibia that spanned more than sixty years. The process commenced with the establishment of a temporary veterinary defence line against rinderpest by the German colonial authorities in the late nineteenth century and ended with the construction of a continuous two-metre-high fence by the South African colonial government sixty years later. This 1250-kilometre fence divides northern from central Namibia even today. The book combines a macro and a micro-perspective and differentiates between cartographic and physical reality. The analysis explores both the colonial state's agency with regard to veterinary and settlement policies and the strategies of Africans and Europeans living close to the border. The analysis also includes the varying perceptions of individuals and populations who lived further north and south of the border and describes their experiences crossing the border as migrant workers, African traders, European settlers and colonial officials. The Red Line's history is understood as a gradual process of segregating livestock and people, and of constructing dichotomies of modern and traditional, healthy and sick, European and African.

Displaced - The Human Cost of Development and Resettlement (Paperback): O. Bennett, C McDowell Displaced - The Human Cost of Development and Resettlement (Paperback)
O. Bennett, C McDowell
R899 Discovery Miles 8 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This title provides a collection of oral histories that reveal the loss of cultural continuity, identity, shifts in family responsibilities, gender roles and fractured relationships between generations. It shows how these are just some of the challenges people face as they attempt to rebuild lives and communities.

Espejos y Ventanas (Mirrors and Windows) - historias orales de trabajadores agricolos y sus familias (Oral Histories of Mexican... Espejos y Ventanas (Mirrors and Windows) - historias orales de trabajadores agricolos y sus familias (Oral Histories of Mexican Farmworkers and the Families) (Paperback)
Mark Lyons, August Tarrier
R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Oral histories of Mexican farm workers in the Philadelphia region.

Oral History, Community, and Displacement - Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Hardcover): S Field Oral History, Community, and Displacement - Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Hardcover)
S Field
R1,531 Discovery Miles 15 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This title uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories and community case studies, it traces the human impact of this disruptive, often violent feature of apartheid's social engineering.

Living with Jim Crow - African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South (Paperback): L Brown, A. Valk Living with Jim Crow - African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South (Paperback)
L Brown, A. Valk
R1,076 Discovery Miles 10 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"This groundbreaking book collects black women's personal recollections of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South. Using first-person narratives, collected through oral history interviews, the book emphasizes women's role in their families and communities, treating women as important actors in the economic, social, cultural, and political life of the segregated South. By focusing on the commonalities of women's experiences, as well as the ways that women's lives differed from the experiences of southern black men, Living with Jim Crow analyzes the interlocking forces of racism and sexism"--Provided by publisher.

No Room of Her Own - Women's Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance (Hardcover, New): D. Hellegers No Room of Her Own - Women's Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance (Hardcover, New)
D. Hellegers
R1,529 Discovery Miles 15 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This moving collection brings together the stories of fifteen women who share the common experience of homelessness. Drawing on interviews conducted in Seattle, Washington over the course of nearly two decades, these accounts range across the United States, from New York to Louisiana to Los Angeles. Included here are memories of living in the South at the tail end of Jim Crow, of growing up gay and Black in the Pacific Northwest in the 1960s, and of surviving childhood abuse in Harlan, Kentucky in the 1970s. These women reveal the formidable struggles they face every day, from catastrophic health issues to routine threats of physical and sexual assault. But they also speak about their own intellectual interests and spiritual lives, and their activism with organizations such as Women in Black, which has held vigils to mark the deaths and honor the lives of the hundreds who have died homeless in the city that spawned Microsoft, Starbucks, and the WTO protests. Illuminating the rich and complicated humanity of its narrators, this book challenges stereotypes about homeless people and provides jarring, unforgettable insights--taken from shelters, drop-in centers, and the streets--into civil society in the United States.

Place, Writing, and Voice in Oral History (Hardcover, New): S. Trower Place, Writing, and Voice in Oral History (Hardcover, New)
S. Trower
R1,532 Discovery Miles 15 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Oral history provides a valuable way of understanding locality. This volume considers the importance of working closely with the specifics of place in the context of global issues including environmental concerns and new communication technologies. Developing interdisciplinary connections between oral history, literary studies, and geography, essays in this collection focus on how both oral and written narratives engage with particular places, ranging from Dartmoor and "the clay country" to the River Ouse, from London to the polar regions. Further, this collection considers how oral history interviews themselves--the sounds of voices--are recorded and listened to in particular places: on walks, in theatres, at home on the internet. In doing so, this volume highlights the importance of thinking methodically about place not only in terms of the content of interviews, but also their creation, dissemination, and reception.

No Room of Her Own - Women's Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance (Paperback, New): D. Hellegers No Room of Her Own - Women's Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance (Paperback, New)
D. Hellegers
R1,500 Discovery Miles 15 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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

Detained without Cause - Muslims' Stories of Detention and Deportation in America after 9/11 (Paperback): I. Shiekh Detained without Cause - Muslims' Stories of Detention and Deportation in America after 9/11 (Paperback)
I. Shiekh
R838 Discovery Miles 8 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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

Soviet Communal Living - An Oral History of the Kommunalka (Hardcover): P. Messana Soviet Communal Living - An Oral History of the Kommunalka (Hardcover)
P. Messana
R1,513 Discovery Miles 15 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"This book brings together fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the Kommunalka, the communal apartments that were the norm in housing in the cities of Russia during the whole history of the Soviet Union. The Kommunalka was perhaps the most important social experiment undertaken by the Soviet regime, having arguably as much if not more of an effect on the outlook of inhabitants than external political realities. Beginning in 1920, almost overnight, multiple Russian families were crammed together into single apartments, purposefully chosen to represent different classes in the same space. The intent was not just to level out class differences, but also to create spy systems within homes so as to extend the governments surveillance abilities and its control over daily life"--

Gulag Voices - Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile (Paperback): J. Gheith, K. Jolluck Gulag Voices - Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile (Paperback)
J. Gheith, K. Jolluck
R899 Discovery Miles 8 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"In this volume, the powerful voices of Gulag survivors will become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories, rather than written memoirs. It brings together interviews with men and women, members of the working class and intelligentsia, people who live in the major cities and those from the "provinces," and from an array of corrective hard labor camps and prisons across the former Soviet Union. Its aims are threefold: 1) to give a sense of the range of the Gulag experience and its consequences for Russian society; 2) to make the Gulag relevant to English-speaking readers by offering comparisons to historical catastrophes they are likely to know more about, such as the Holocaust; and 3) to discuss issues of oral history and memory in the cultural context of Soviet and post-Soviet society"--Provided by publisher.

1857 the Oral Tradition (Hardcover): Pankaj Rag 1857 the Oral Tradition (Hardcover)
Pankaj Rag
R149 Discovery Miles 1 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Speaking History - Oral Histories of the American Past, 1865-Present (Paperback): S Armitage Speaking History - Oral Histories of the American Past, 1865-Present (Paperback)
S Armitage
R825 Discovery Miles 8 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume of selected oral histories features the voices of Americans who lived through some of the most critical events shaping the nation's history since the Civil War. This first-of-a-kind compilation allows students, scholars, and other readers to explore the connections and disconnections between individual stories and broader historical themes by understanding how history plays out in individual lives. Comprised of oral history interviews drawn from some of the country's major collections, "Speaking History "presents a remarkable array of diverse American voices. Included here are fascinating, often moving accounts of everything from slavery to protest movements, world wars to work and leisure, forming a detailed mosaic of American life in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Supplemented with valuable historical context, this book demonstrates how oral history interviews can bring the past to life by linking individual experiences to larger historical narratives.

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Family histories of the Irish Revolution (Paperback): Sarah-Anne Buckley, Ciara Boylan, Pat Dolan Family histories of the Irish Revolution (Paperback)
Sarah-Anne Buckley, Ciara Boylan, Pat Dolan
R761 Discovery Miles 7 610 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Soldiers and Citizens - An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to the Pentagon (Paperback, 2008 ed.):... Soldiers and Citizens - An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to the Pentagon (Paperback, 2008 ed.)
Christian Appy; C. Mirra
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

More than five years after the United States military and coalition forces invaded Iraq, the Iraq War remains a controversial and divisive subject throughout the world. This wide-ranging book, the first truly comprehensive oral history of the war, captures the diverse viewpoints of the soldiers, policymakers, family members, and others whose lives it changed. Recorded here are gripping battlefield accounts from veterans, the passionate testimonies of conscientious objectors and war supporters, reflections from nuclear inspectors and diplomats, and the varied perspectives of public figures from all across the political spectrum. This illuminating and moving book is an essential document of one of the defining conflicts of the twenty-first century.

St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project - An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth (Hardcover): Claire Parham St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project - An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth (Hardcover)
Claire Parham
R946 R781 Discovery Miles 7 810 Save R165 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The culmination of a century-long dream to link the Great Lakes interior industrial hubs to the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project stands as one of the largest and most important public works' initiatives of the twentieth century. Seen as vital to North American commerce and strategic in advancing America's position on the world stage, the billion dollar seaway and power dam were also a phenomenal feat of engineering involving an unprecedented level of cooperation between Canadian and American agencies and the unrelenting efforts of workers on both sides of the border. Dubbed the greatest construction show on earth, the largest waterway and hydro dam project ever jointly built by two nations consisted of seven locks, the widening of various canals, the taming of rapids, and the erection of the 3216-foot long, 195.5-foot high Robert Moses - Robert H. Saunders Power Dam. In this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters. Drawing on firsthand accounts, she provides a vivid portrait of the lives of the men who built the seaway and the women who accompanied them. On the fiftieth anniversary of the dedication of the power dam and waterway, this book is a fitting tribute to the hard work and dedication of the project's 22,000 workers.

Soldiers and Citizens - An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to the Pentagon (Hardcover): Christian... Soldiers and Citizens - An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to the Pentagon (Hardcover)
Christian Appy; C. Mirra
R1,530 Discovery Miles 15 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

More than five years after the United States military and coalition forces invaded Iraq, the Iraq War remains a controversial and divisive subject throughout the world. This wide-ranging book, the first truly comprehensive oral history of the war, captures the diverse viewpoints of the soldiers, policymakers, family members, and others whose lives it changed. Recorded here are gripping battlefield accounts from veterans, the passionate testimonies of conscientious objectors and war supporters, reflections from nuclear inspectors and diplomats, and the varied perspectives of public figures from all across the political spectrum. This illuminating and moving book is an essential document of one of the defining conflicts of the twenty-first century.

World War I in Central and Eastern Europe - Politics, Conflict and Military Experience (Paperback): Judith Devlin, John Paul... World War I in Central and Eastern Europe - Politics, Conflict and Military Experience (Paperback)
Judith Devlin, John Paul Newman, Maria Falina
R1,159 Discovery Miles 11 590 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In the English language World War I has largely been analysed and understood through the lens of the Western Front. This book addresses this imbalance by examining the war in Eastern and Central Europe. The historiography of the war in the West has increasingly focused on the experience of ordinary soldiers and civilians, the relationships between them and the impact of war at the time and subsequently. This book takes up these themes and, engaging with the approaches and conclusions of historians of the Western front, examines wartime experiences and the memory of war in the East. Analysing soldiers' letters and diaries to discover the nature and impact of displacement and refugee status on memory, this volume offers a basis for comparison between experiences in these two areas. It also provides material for intra-regional comparisons that are still missing from the current research. Was the war in the East wholly 'other'? Were soldiers in this region as alienated as those in the West? Did they see themselves as citizens and was there continuity between their pre-war or civilian and military identities? And if, in the Eastern context, these identities were fundamentally challenged, was it the experience of war itself or its consequences (in the shape of imprisonment and displacement, and changing borders) that mattered most? How did soldiers and citizens in this region experience and react to the traumas and upheavals of war and with what consequences for the post-war era? In seeking to answer these questions and others, this volume significantly adds to our understanding of World War I as experienced in Central and Eastern Europe.

Women's Voices from the Spanish Civil War (Paperback): Jim Fyrth, Sally Alexander Women's Voices from the Spanish Civil War (Paperback)
Jim Fyrth, Sally Alexander
R854 Discovery Miles 8 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Perhaps 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.

The Fate of Holocaust Memories - Transmission and Family Dialogues (Hardcover): C Roth The Fate of Holocaust Memories - Transmission and Family Dialogues (Hardcover)
C Roth
R1,517 Discovery Miles 15 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An innovative mix of history and psychological research, this book tells the story of one family of Holocaust survivors and reveals how each generation has passed on memories of the War and the Shoah to the next.

Sister in Sorrow - Life Histories of Female Holocaust Survivors from Hungary (Paperback): Ilana Rosen Sister in Sorrow - Life Histories of Female Holocaust Survivors from Hungary (Paperback)
Ilana Rosen
R983 Discovery Miles 9 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a compassionate and insightful study of Hungarian women who lived through the Holocaust, with an appendix containing their complete stories.""Sister in Sorrow"" offers a glimpse into the world of Hungarian Holocaust survivors through the stories of fifteen survivors, as told by thirteen women and two spouses presently living in Hungary and Israel. Analyzing the accounts as oral narratives, author Ilana Rosen uses contemporary folklore studies methodologies to explore the histories and the consciousness of the narrators as well as the difficulty for present-day audiences to fully grasp them. Rosen's research demonstrates not only the extreme personal horrors these women experienced but also the ways they cope with their memories.In four sections, Rosen interprets the life histories according to two major contemporary leading literary approaches: psychoanalysis and phenomenology. This reading encompasses both the life spans of the survivors and specific episodes or personal narratives relating to the women's identity and history. The psychoanalytic reading examines focal phases in the lives of the women, first in pre-war Europe, then in World War II and the Holocaust, and last as Holocaust survivors living in the shadow of loss and atrocity. The phenomenological examination traces the terms of perception and of the communication between the women and their different present-day non-survivor audiences. An appendix contains the complete life histories of the women, including their unique and affecting remembrances.Although Holocaust memory and narrative have figured at the center of academic, political, and moral debates in recent years, most works look at such stories from a social science perspective and attempt to extend the meaning of individual tales to larger communities. Although Rosen keeps the image of the general group - be it Jews, female Holocaust survivors, Israelis, or Hungarians - in mind throughout this volume, the focus of ""Sister in Sorrow"" is the ways the individual women experienced, told, and processed their harrowing experiences. Students of Holocaust studies and women's studies will be grateful for the specific and personal approach of ""Sister in Sorrow"".

The Unquiet Nisei - An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi Embrey (Hardcover, 2007 Ed.): D Bahr The Unquiet Nisei - An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi Embrey (Hardcover, 2007 Ed.)
D Bahr
R1,525 Discovery Miles 15 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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

Voices of the Apalachicola (Paperback): Faith Eidse Voices of the Apalachicola (Paperback)
Faith Eidse; Series edited by Raymond Arsenault, Gary R. Mormino
R711 R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Save R82 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One of the main water resources for Florida, Alabama, and Georgia, the Apalachicola River begins where the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers meet at Lake Seminole and flow unimpedted for 106 miles, through the red hills and floodplains of the Florida panhandle into the Gulf of Mexico. "Voices of the Apalachicola "is a collection of oral histories from more than thirty individuals who have lived out their entire lives in this region, including the last steamboat pilot on the river system, sharecroppers who escaped servitude, turpentine workers in Tate's Hell, sawyers of "old-as-Christ" cypress, beekeepers working the last large tupelo stand, and a Creek chief descended from a 200-year unbroken line of chiefs.

Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC): Volume 1, The Literary Evidence (Hardcover): Peter Liddel Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC): Volume 1, The Literary Evidence (Hardcover)
Peter Liddel
R5,283 R3,852 Discovery Miles 38 520 Save R1,431 (27%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Decree-making is a defining aspect of ancient Greek political activity: it was the means by which city-state communities went about deciding to get things done. This two-volume work provides a new view of the decree as an institution within the framework of fourth-century Athenian democratic political activity. Volume 1 consists of a comprehensive account of the literary evidence for decrees of the fourth-century Athenian assembly. Volume 2 analyses how decrees and decree-making, by offering both an authoritative source for the narrative of the history of the Athenian demos and a legitimate route for political self-promotion, came to play an important role in shaping Athenian democratic politics. Peter Liddel assesses ideas about, and the reality of, the dissemination of knowledge of decrees among both Athenians and non-Athenians and explains how they became significant to the wider image and legacy of the Athenians.

Do, Die, or Get Along - A Tale of Two Appalachian Towns (Hardcover, New): Peter Crow Do, Die, or Get Along - A Tale of Two Appalachian Towns (Hardcover, New)
Peter Crow
R1,783 Discovery Miles 17 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Do, Die, or Get Along weaves together voices of twenty-six people who have intimate connections to two neighboring towns in the southwestern Virginia coal country. Filled with evidence of a new kind of local outlook on the widespread challenge of small community survival, the book tells how a confrontational ""do-or-die"" past has given way to a ""get-along"" present built on coalition and guarded hope. St. Paul and Dante are six miles apart; measured in other ways, the distance can be greater. Dante, for decades a company town controlled at all levels by the mine owners, has only a recent history of civic initiative. In St. Paul, which arose at a railroad junction, public debate, entrepreneurship, and education found a more receptive home. The speakers are men and women, wealthy and poor, black and white, old-timers and newcomers. Their concerns and interests range widely, including the battle over strip mining, efforts to control flooding, the 1989-90 Pittston strike, the nationally acclaimed Wetlands Estonoa Project, and the grassroots revitalization of both towns led by the St. Paul Tomorrow and Dante Lives On organizations. Their talk of the past often invokes an ethos, rooted in the hand-to-mouth pioneer era, of short-term gain. Just as frequently, however, talk turns to more recent times, when community leaders, corporations, unions, the federal government, and environmental groups have begun to seek accord based on what will be best, in the long run, for the towns. The story of Dante and St. Paul, Crow writes, ""gives twenty-first-century meaning to the idea of the good fight."" This is an absorbing account of persistence, resourcefulness, and eclectic redefinition of success and community revival, with ramifications well beyond Appalachia.

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