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Palgrave Studies in Oral History: Everyday Lives in China s Cold War Military-Industrial Complex: Voices from the Shanghai Small Third Front 1964-1988 (Hardcover)

This book translates and contextualizes the recollections of men and women who built lived and worked in some of the factory compounds relocated from China s most cosmopolitan city--Shanghai. Small Third Line factories became oases of relatively... more

Palgrave Studies in Oral History: Radicals Rhetoric and the War: The University of Nevada in the Wake of Kent State (Paperback)

Radicals Rhetoric and the War documents the Kent State antiwar protest at the height of the Vietnam era. Informed by thirty years of oral history interviews the book details perspectives and voices from students faculty and administrators. more

Palgrave Studies in Oral History: Everyday Lives in China s Cold War Military-Industrial Complex: Voices from the Shanghai Small Third Front 1964-1988 (Paperback)

This book translates and contextualizes the recollections of men and women who built lived and worked in some of the factory compounds relocated from China s most cosmopolitan city--Shanghai. Small Third Line factories became oases of relatively... more

Palgrave Studies in Oral History Education as My Agenda: Gertrude Williams Race and the Baltimore Public Schools (Paperback)

When Gertrude Williams retired in 1998 after forty-nine years in the Baltimore public schools The Baltimore Sun called her the most powerful of principals who tangled with two superintendents and beat them both. In this oral memoir Williams identifies... more

Palgrave Studies in Oral History Exodus to Shanghai: Stories of Escape from the Third Reich (Paperback)

Of the 400 000 German-speaking Jews that escaped the Third Reich about 16 000 ended up in Shanghai China. This groundbreaking volume gathers 20 years of interviews with over 100 former Shanghai refugees. It offers a moving collective portrait of... more

Palgrave Studies in Oral History: Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City (Hardcover)

Sisters in the Brotherhoods is an oral-history-based study of women who have against considerable odds broken the gender barrier to blue-collar employment in various trades in New York City beginning in the 1970s. It is a story of the fight against... more

Palgrave Studies in Oral History: Growing Up in the People s Republic: Conversations Between Two Daughters of China s Revolution (Paperback)

In a conversational style and in chronological sequence Ye Weili and Ma Xiaodong recount their earlier lives in China from the 1950s to the 1980s a particularly eventful period that included the catastrophic Cultural Revolution. Using their own stories... more

Pre-Owned No Room of Her Own: Women s Stories of Homelessness Life Death and Resistance (Palgrave Studies in Oral History) Paperback

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Pre-Owned Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China Palgrave Studies Oral History Paperback Rowena Xiaoqing He

Tracing the lives of three exiled student leaders over two continents before and after the 1989 Tiananmen Uprising this fascinating oral history explores how their political ideals were shaped by institutionalized education and social movements in... more

Palgrave MacMillan Memory Studies: Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia (Hardcover)

This book provides the first comprehensive study of diverse migrant memories and what they mean for Australia in the twenty-first century. Drawing on rich case studies it captures the changing political and cultural dimensions of migration memories as... more

Pre-Owned Speaking History: The American Past Through Oral Histories 1865-present Palgrave Studies in History Paperback S. Armitage

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Palgrave African Borderlands Studies Namibia s Red Line: The History of a Veterinary and Settlement Border (Hardcover)

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... more

Pre-Owned Soldiers and Citizens: An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to (Hardcover) by C Mirra Kenneth A Loparo

9780230601550. Pre-owned: Good condition. Hard cover. 2008 ed. Language: English. Pages: 201. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 201 p. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. This book is the first comprehensive oral history of the Iraq War. It presents the... more

Pre-Owned Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South (Paperback 9780230621527) by L Brown A Valk

9780230621527. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. 2010 ed. Language: English. Pages: 209. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 209 p. Contains: Unspecified Halftones black & white. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Using first-person... more

Pre-Owned Creating Choice : A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control 1961-1973 9781403968142 Used

9781403968142. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. 2006 ed. Language: English. Pages: 290. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 290 p. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Before Roe v. Wade somewhere between one and two million illegal abortions... more

Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History: El Niño in World History (Hardcover)

This book examines the role of the El Niäno Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in society. Throughout human history large or recurrent El Niänos could cause significant disruption to societies and in some cases even contribute to political change. Yet it is... more

Palgrave Studies in Economic History: Socialism with a Human Face: Using Behavioural Economics to Understand East German Economic History (Paperback)

East Germany s economic history is typically told as a story of the unravelling of an inherently flawed system. Yet while the system s inefficiency is undeniable its economic history was much richer than its comparatively poor economic performance... more

Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History: Global History with Chinese Characteristics: Autocratic States Along the Silk Road in the Decline of the Spanish and Qing Empires 1680-1796 (Hardcover)

This open access book considers a pivotal era in Chinese history from a global perspective. This book s insight into Chinese and international history offers timely and challenging perspectives on initiatives like Chinese characteristics The New Silk... more

Palgrave Studies in Economic History: A History of Wine in Europe 19th to 20th Centuries Volume II (Hardcover)

A History of Wine in Europe 19th to 20th Centuries Volume II more

Palgrave Studies in Political History: The Politics of Moderation in Modern European History (Paperback)

The Politics of Moderation in Modern European History more

Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History: A Cultural History of the British Census (Paperback)

The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of characters including statisticians novelists national and local officials political and social reformers and journalists... more

Palgrave Studies in Economic History: Botswana - A Modern Economic History: An African Diamond in the Rough (Hardcover)

Highlights lessons from Botswana s economic history that are relevant for understanding historical as well as contemporary experiences of economic growth and (lacking) structural transformation in natural resource abundant and dependent countries... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology: Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History (Paperback)

This book explores the US patent system which helped practical minded innovators establish intellectual property rights and fulfill the need for achievement that motivates inventors and scholars alike. In this sense the patent system was a parallel... more

Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History: At the Edges of Liberalism: Junctions of European German and Jewish History (Paperback)

The essays in this volume seek to confront some of the charged meeting points of European - especially German - and Jewish history. All in one way or another explore the entanglements the intertwined moments of empathy and enmity belonging and... more

Palgrave Studies in Economic History: Landed Estates and Rural Inequality in English History: From the Mid-Seventeenth Century to the Present (Hardcover)

Based on a detailed investigation of local sources this book examines the history of the landed estate system in England since the mid-seventeenth century. Over recent centuries England was increasingly occupied by landed estates run by locally... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought: An Institutional History of Italian Economics in the Interwar Period -- Volume I (Hardcover)

Italy is well known for its prominent economists as well as for the typical public profile they have constantly revealed. But when facing an illiberal and totalitarian regime how closely did Italian economists collaborate with government in shaping its... more

Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History: Translations Histories Enlightenments: William Robertson in Germany 1760-1795 (Paperback)

Historian and minister William Robertson was a central Scottish Enlightenment figure whose influence reached well beyond the boundaries of the British Isles. In this reception study of Robertson s work Laszlo Kontler shows how the reception of... more

Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History: At the Edges of Liberalism: Junctions of European German and Jewish History (Hardcover)

The essays in this volume seek to confront some of the charged meeting points of European - especially German - and Jewish history. All in one way or another explore the entanglements the intertwined moments of empathy and enmity belonging and... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements: Catholic Women s Movements in Liberal and Fascist Italy (Paperback)

In the early 1900s the Catholic Church appealed for the first time in its history directly to women to reassert its religious political and social relevance in Italian society. This book examines how the highly successful conservative Catholic women s... more

Palgrave Studies in Economic History: Brazilian Crops in the Global Market: The Emergence of Brazil as a World Agribusiness Exporter Since 1950 (Hardcover)

This book comprehensively examines the development of Brazilian agriculture by focusing on the crops which evolved from national products to international commodities on a massive scale. It traces the transformation of Brazil from a country with... more

Palgrave Studies in Migration History: Opposing Australia s First Assisted Immigrants 1832-42 (Paperback)

This book unravels the paradoxical denigration of the first significant group of free (non-convict) working-class emigrants to the Australian colony of New South Wales in the 1830s. Though their labour was sorely needed the colonial elite rejected the... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood: Health and Girlhood in Britain 1874-1920 (Hardcover)

This first major study of girls health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young women from the 1870s to the 1920s as theories concerning the biological limitations of female adolescence... more

Palgrave Studies in Political History: The Atlantik-Brücke and the American Council on Germany 1952-1974 (Hardcover)

Based on impressive multi-archival work and a keen sense for a good narrative the author introduces us to the complex interlocking networks of the littleknown Atlantik-Brücke and the American Council on Germany. A fantastic addition to our... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology: NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space (Paperback)

Since its inception NASA has participated in over 4 000 international projects yet historians have almost entirely neglected this remarkable aspect of the agency s work. This groundbreaking work is the first to trace NASA s history in a truly... more

Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media: Media and the Portuguese Empire (Hardcover)

This volume offers a new understanding of the role of the media in the Portuguese Empire shedding light on the interactions between communications policy economics society culture and national identities. Based on an interdisciplinary approach this... more

Palgrave Studies in Economic History: Hustlers Traitors Patriots and Politicians: Legitimising London s Transport Monopoly 1900-1933 (Hardcover)

This book offers a novel explanation of the transformation of London s transport from a free market to a public corporation rooted in social and political legitimacy rather than economic rationality. To become a single corporation London Transport... more

Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History: Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe (Hardcover)

It is the aim of this volume to investigate how academic practices of Memory Studies are being applied adapted and transformed in the countries of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. It affords a new startlingly different perspective for... more

Palgrave Studies in Economic History: Crises and Transformation in the Mediterranean World: Lessons from Catalonia (Hardcover)

This edited collection presents an economic history of Catalonia and its economic crises from Roman times to the political difficulties of the present day. It considers how the strong identity of the Catalan people has been reinforced in critical... more