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So They Understand
Utah State University Press 2003; US$ 18.50Illustrated with numerous stories collected from Alaska, the Yukon, and South Africa and further enlivened by the author's accessible style and experiences as a longtime oral historian and archivist, So They Understand is a comprehensive study of the special challenges and concerns involved in documenting, representing, preserving, and interpreting... more...
French War Brides in America
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 45.00The thrill of love in the heady days following liberation soon turned to a lesson in reality as GI's and their French brides navigated paperwork, bigotry, and culture shock on both sides, some finding true love, and some finding the American Dream. more...
Overheard in New York UPDATED
Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 12.95Updated with sixteen new pages of quips, remarks and exchanges from the creators of overheardinnewyork.com. The streets of New York are full of characters who don't mince words-or care who hears them. This collection presents some of the most outlandish real life conversations overheard on the sidewalk, in the subway, and at the next table. It's... more...
Gambling on the American Dream
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2008; US$ 99.00In recent years, casino gambling has swept the United States. Since 1990, casinos have opened all around the United States. Casinos have become a powerful engine of economic growth around the United States. Gambling on the American Dream provides a historical perspective for understanding this growth by telling the story of Atlantic City, New Jersey... more...
Surviving Through the Days
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is drawn from a wide sampling of California's many Native... more...
Song of Brooklyn
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 26.95The voices of Brooklyn: ?I?m a Brooklyn guy, it?s in my bones and it?s there in Brooklyn. There?s a certain rhythm you get growing up there. Every Brooklyn kid has it. Always on the right beat. The Bronx, no; Queens, you were out of it; but Brooklyn, that was it .? ? Mel Brooks , Williamsburg ?Everyone got along because we had one major thing... more...
Oral History and Public Memories
Temple University Press 2009; US$ 31.95Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used "in public," they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a variety of venues and media around... more...
Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 29.00This book restores the slaves? songs to their rightful place in American literature for their intrinsic value as lyric poetry, and as a touchstone of the American imagination. more...
Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War
Indiana University Press 2008; US$ 21.20The 1930s to the 1950s in Italy witnessed large increases in film-going, radio-listening, and the sale of music and weekly magazines. The industries that made and sold commercial, cultural products were transformed by the new technologies of reproduction and new approaches to marketing and ... more...
London Voices, London Lives
The Policy Press 2007; US$ 34.95London Voices, London Lives addresses a question of great current importance for urban policy: what kind of a place is London in the early 21st century, and how does it differ significantly - economically, socially, culturally, in quality of life - from other parts of urban Britain? It addresses these questions in a unique way: over one hundred ordinary... more...









