Oral History

This collection of essays challenges the paradigm of ‘collectivity’ that has historically dominated most research on India. This paradigm has assumed that life in the subcontinent revolves around caste, community, and kinship, and that individual agency and selfhood have been marginal to thought... More

After 60 years of silence, The Diary of Mary Berg is poised at last to gain the appreciation and widespread attention that it so richly deserves, and is certain to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank as one of the most significant memoirs of the twentieth century. From love to tragedy, ... More

"Child of Our Time" is the inspiring story of a little girl caught in the vortex of one of history7;s great horrors. Plucked from deep rural Germany, after witnessing the horror of Kristallnacht and her family7;s eviction from its village, Ruth David was sent to England as part of the Kindertranspor... More

In the first trade paperback edition of his national bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel presents "the real American experience" ("Chicago Daily News")--"a magnificent book. . . . A work of art. To read it is to hear America talking" ("Boston Globe").A trade paperback edition of t... More

This book ranging from the romantic to the realistic, they evoke something the milieu in which he has lived and worked as a teacher, writer and mountaineer. His stories are interesting, inspiring and entertaining, and written in a lucid and pleasant style. His rich and vivid description is the resul... More

This is the history of the Meru people of Mount Kenya, based on their own traditions, from the earliest times through the colonial period. Many of these tales have been ritually passed down through no fewer than nineteen generations; others were remembered by those personally involved. Jeffrey Fadim... More

Providing new information on women's participation in the Moroccan independence movement, Voices of Resistance offers a rare opportunity to hear Moroccan women speak freely about their personal lives. Each woman is introduced in terms of her family background and personal style, and the interviews a... More

This important new book will interest historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and all students of the complex relationships between Hinduism, Islam, and the Indian state.Reassessing conventional South Asian historiography from a subaltern perspective, Against History, Agains... More

This important new book will interest historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and all students of the complex relationships between Hinduism, Islam, and the Indian state.Reassessing conventional South Asian historiography from a subaltern perspective, Against History, Agains... More