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Oral History eBooks
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(Dis) Forming the American Canon
By: Judy, Ronald A.T.; Lubiano, Wahneema
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Judy offers an alternative interpretation of literacy that challenges traditional Enlightenment discourses claim that literacy and reason are the privileged properties of Western culture. Judy argues, on the basis of his readings of autobiographical African-American Arabic slave narratives, that through the production of the Arabic text, the African slave already had all the elements that the West attributes to reason before his original introduction to Western culturea literacy that already mediated between Africa and Europe.
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Price: $72.00
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Beowulf
By: Ringler, Dick
Published by: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Dick Ringler's deceptively simple translation captures the rhythm, movement, and power of the original Old English poem while employing a fluid modern English style and a relatively spare vocabulary.
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Price: $9.95
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Desperate Hours: The Epic Rescue of the Andrea Doria
By: Goldstein, Richard
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
On a summer's night in 1956, in a fog off Nantucket, the world-renowned ocean liner Andrea Doria collided with another ship, the Stockholm. Eleven hours later it sank, but in that brief time the Doria became, after the Titanic, the most storied vessel of the century, as 1,700 people were saved in an unforgettable rescue punctuated by countless acts of heroism amid confusion, terror, even cowardice.
Drawing on dozens of interviews that relate stories never before told, utilizing court documents, memoirs and reports by psychiatrists who examine survivors, and presenting technical findings shedding light on who was to blame for this disaster at sea, Richard Goldstein presents the definitive history of a fateful day, a legendary liner, and a deadly shipwreck now considered the Mount Everest of scuba diving.
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Price: $24.95
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Long Time, Olden Time: Aboriginal Accounts of Northern Territory History
By: Read, Peter (ed.); Read, Jay (ed.)
Published by: IAD Press
The year is 1977, and Dinny Japaljarri remembers a time when the Northern Territory was a very different place. Twenty five years on, many of the events in this book now survive only in the memories of a generation that has passed, or is passing, away. Their stories, however, live on told here in the vibrant tradition of Aboriginal oral history, from the transcripts and recordings that form the basis for this fascinating and important document. From first contact with Macassans then Europeans, through two World Wars and beyond, Peter and Jay Reads collection of stories stands as a unique record of Aboriginal accounts of the conflict and co-existence that have defined the flavour of the Territory.
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Price: $10.45
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Memory and Memorials, 1789-1914
By: Campbell, Matthew; Shuttleworth, Sally; Labbe, Jaqueline M.
Published by: Routledge
This volume explores the cultural importance of concepts and theories of memory. Ranging historically from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, it examines the importance of memory in cultural history.
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Price: $160.00
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Oral History and Public Memories
By: Hamilton, Paula (ed.); Shopes, Linda (ed.)
Published by: Temple University Press
Understanding how individual perspectives on history build collective memory
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Price: $79.50
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The Order Has Been Carried Out
By: Portelli, Alessandro
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
In 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before. This title relates the struggles for freedom under Fascism and Nazism, the battles for memory in post-war democracy, and the meanings of death and grief in modern society.
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Price: $49.95
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Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
By: Partridge, Eric
Published by: Routledge
Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.
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Price: $165.00
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Telling Stories
By: Attwood, Bain (ed.); Magowan, Fiona (ed.)
Published by: Allen & Unwin
Indigenous histories not only challenge the content of conventional national and colonial histories inasmuch as they tell a different story, but they also challenge the nature of history itself
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Price: $28.00
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To Wear the Dust of War
By: Iwry, By Samuel; Kelley, Edited by L.J.H.
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Like many European Jews, Sam Iwry began his life in Poland, but at the age of ten fled with his family to Russia before World War I. At age 29, Iwry was forced to flee again - this time from the Soviets - and ended up in Shanghai, China, joining 20,000 Jewish refugees who were there. The story of the Diaspora caused by the Holocaust is well-known, but the Far Eastern dimension has come to light only very recently. Iwry is a magnificent storyteller who not only brings the harrowing details of flight and survival into vivid detail, but he is also an historian who deliberately places his own experiences into much wider context. This oral history sheds light on Jewish life in Eastern Europe during the inter-war period, the search for a safe haven from Nazis and Soviets, daily life in the Shanghai ghetto, and emigration to America. Iwry's story is both representative of the Jewish experience and also completely unique.
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Price: $75.00
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