Product Description: La masacre de las Fosas Ardeantinas perpetrada en Roma por las tropas nazis durante la segunda guerra mundial es vista a través de más de doscientos testimonios de cinco generaciones: de los protagonistas a los familiares de los muertos, de la gente común a líderes políticos o a los jóvenes de hoy...read more

Product Description:      History, we are often taught, is driven by vast social, political, and economic forces. But each political event, each war, each clash in the streets or at the picket lines, is experienced by individuals. It is this profound bond between public history and personal struggle, Alessandro Portelli contends, that gives oral history its significance and its power...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This assessment of American literary history explores the ways in which the interplay of written and oral forms shaped the foundations of both national literature and political identity. It examines numerous texts, written from colonial to modern times, considering how speech and writing interact...read more