PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Stephen M. Sloan is the Director of the Institute for Oral History and Associate Professor of History at Baylor University. Mark Cave is Senior Historian with the Historic New Orleans Collection. Sloan and Cave are the editors of Listening on the Edge: Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis, winner of the Oral History Association book prize.
Sloan and Cave have assembled an admirably global set of oral histories ranging from taiga to tropics and from oil spills to afforestation projects. This book brings to life perspectives and voices that rarely appear in the written record and reveal an intimately human side of environmental history as experienced by everyday people. Environmental history and oral history make good partners and this book is a shining example of how to realize their combined potential. * J.R. McNeill, author of Something New Under the Sun and The Great Acceleration * This book gets at the shared activist roots of environmental and oral history and demonstrates the fruitfulness of their cross-pollination. The various perspectives and ways of knowing illustrate how oral history and environmental history have been able to broaden each other's frameworks at the disciplinary and methodological levels. * Mary A. Larson, former president, Oral History Association *
