DDR Geschichte - GDR History

Dirk Spilker. The East German Leadership and the Division of Germany: Patriotism and Propaganda 1945-1953. Oxford Historical Monagraphs Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xi + 296 pp. $109.20 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-928412-2.

Reviewed by Mary Fulbrook (University College London)
Published on H-German (February, 2009)
Commissioned by Susan R. Boettcher

Anarchism & Sexuality

Anarchism and Sexuality in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries
2nd Call for papers
Deadline - 30.06.2009
Anarchism and Sexuality conference, Leeds, 19th February 2010.

The aim of this conference is to explore the connections between anarchist thought and activism in regions of extensive uptake of anarchist ideas, e.g. Spain, Portugal and Latin America, with respect to an important area of anarchist ideas and practice: sexuality.

Unfree Labor and the Atlantic Empires

Call for Papers

Unfree Labor and the Atlantic Empires
Essay submissions are requested for a conference and potential publication in an edited volume on unfree labor and the Atlantic Empires. The conference is tentatively scheduled for late May or early June of 2010 at the Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. The volume is under contract with Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden and Boston) in their Atlantic Series under the working title: Building the Atlantic Empires: Unfree Labor, the State, and the Rise of Global Capitalism, 1500-1945.

Spanish Thermopylae

Spanish ThermopylaeBook ann: Warren & Pell
A newly published book on the Cypriot Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War - Spanish Thermopylae. It is vailable from Bibliagora

Writer: Philippou Strongos, Paul
Supplier: Warren & Pell Publishing
Year: 2009
ISBN: 9780955419959

Price: £14.99 (incl. VAT)
Pages: 327
Trade Paperback

Soziale Bewegungen in den Geschichtswissenschaften

Konf: Theoretische Ansätze und Konzepte der Forschung über soziale Bewegungen in den Geschichtswissenschaften

Institut für soziale Bewegungen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum 02.04.2009-04.04.2009, Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets
Deadline: 27.03.2009

Die Erforschung sozialer, politischer und religiöser Bewegungen stößt auf reges Interesse. Das zeigen nicht nur die zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen der letzten beiden Dekaden, sondern auch die fortschreitende Institutionalisierung, internationale Vernetzung und die beginnende Kanonisierung in Nachschlagewerken.