The Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History is a comprehensive examination of oral history which addresses a wide range of practitioners, from beginning students to graduate students and established scholars, community and freelance practitioners in the field, and those from other fields and disciplines interested in oral history. The purpose of the book is to provide a broad range of readers with:
* An advanced introduction into and overview of the field;
* Cutting-edge reflections on core themes in the field; and
* Global comparative perspectives on oral history theory and practice
The Handbook is arranged in five thematic Parts: Creating Interviews, Interpreting Oral Histories, Making Histories, Advocacy & Empowerment, and Big Questions & Future Directions. Each chapter documents the state-of-the-art in a particular subject area and surveys the international historiography and current debates. Each chapter concludes with a brief outlook of potential future developments in the field.
With chapter authors from every region of the oral history world - North America, South America, Oceania, Africa, Asia and Europe - and each author making use of examples and scholarship from across the global field of oral history, this volume represents the first truly international handbook of oral history.
| ISBN: | 9781350379923 |
| Publication date: | 19th February 2026 |
| Author: | Alexander Freund, Erin Jessee, Alistair Thomson |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 504 pages |
| Series: | Bloomsbury Handbooks |
| Genres: |
Oral history History: theory and methods General and world history |
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History is a comprehensive examination of oral history which addresses a wide range of practitioners, from beginning students to graduate students and established scholars, community and freelance practitioners in the field, and those from other fields and disciplines interested in oral history. The purpose of the book is to provide a broad range of readers with:
* An advanced introduction into and overview of the field;
* Cutting-edge reflections on core themes in the field; and
* Global comparative perspectives on oral history theory and practice
The Handbook is arranged in five thematic Parts: Creating Interviews, Interpreting Oral Histories, Making Histories, Advocacy & Empowerment, and Big Questions & Future Directions. Each chapter documents the state-of-the-art in a particular subject area and surveys the international historiography and current debates. Each chapter concludes with a brief outlook of potential future developments in the field.
With chapter authors from every region of the oral history world - North America, South America, Oceania, Africa, Asia and Europe - and each author making use of examples and scholarship from across the global field of oral history, this volume represents the first truly international handbook of oral history.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History features in the following genres: Oral history, History: theory and methods, General and world history
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History is available in Hardback
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History was written by Alexander Freund, Erin Jessee, Alistair Thomson and published by Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History has 504 pages
Yes it is part of Bloomsbury Handbooks series
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