...Jim Cohen 1984 The French Socialists, Legends Aside Jim Cohen Hugues Portelli, Le socialisme fragais fel qu’il esf. Presses Universitaires de France, 1980,213 pages. While Reagan, Thatcher and other pre-historic...

... and Meaning York: Praeger, rev. ed., 1991). of Oral and Public History Paul Thompson, The Voice ofthe (Albany:SUNY Press, 1990). Past: Oral History (Oxford: Allesandro Portelli, The Death of Oxford University Press, rev. Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: ed., 1988...

... sources, as the Italian oral-history analyst Alessandro Portelli has pointed out. The more one depends on the memory of informants, the more the account of an event shifts toward legend. ”Memory manipulates factual details and chronological se- quence,” Portelli writes. For him...

.... Understanding Memory as a Cultural Phenomenon Recent theorists of oral history analyze memory as a part of culture in ways that might be extremely useful for gay and lesbian historians. For example Alessandro Portelli’s adysis of oral histories of workers in Ted, an industrial town in northern Italy...

.... Indeed, it is the very wrongness of stories like Camella Teoli that make them so valuable to both informants and researchers alike. As the oral his- torian Alessandro Portelli points out, ”wrong” tales ”allow us to rec- ognize the interests of the tellers, and the dreams and desires beneath...

... of Unity Movement historical practice has been pitted against various dominant constructions of the past; its classical embodiment, the bark of the radical school- teacher, has carried what Alessandro Portelli terms, “the great literary r+sal of existing history: uchronia.” As formidable purists...

.... 42144-54. Gareth Stedman Jones, Languages of Class; Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic. 34:78-85. Cohen, Jim. Hugues Portelli, Le socialisme Jrancuis tel qu’il est. 28/29/30:42340. Cooper, Fredrick. George M. Fredrickson, White Supremacy. 28/29/30393405. Cross, Gary...

... and the Natural World," Compmztiue Studies in %defy and History 29,1(1987), 1%. 5. Natalie Zemon Davis, Fiction in the Atchiues: Rrdon Ties and Their Tdlers in Six- teenth-Century Ftan~e(London, 1988). 6. See A Portelli, The Peculiarities of Oral History,"History WorkshopJournal 12, (1981...