David Richardson, Anthony Tibbles, Suzanne Schwarz, eds. Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007. xii + 315 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84631-066-9.
Reviewed by Isaac Land
Published on H-Albion (November, 2008)
Commissioned by David S. Karr
Craig Nelson. Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution and the Birth of Modern Nations. New York Penguin Books, 2007. 396 pp. $16.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-14-311238-9.
Reviewed by Michael J. Turner
Published on H-Albion (November, 2008)
Commissioned by David S. Karr
2009 sees the 50th volume of Labor History and to celebrate this milestone Routledge is pleased to offer a special US$ 5,000 Graduate Scholarship Prize. The deadline for scholarship applications, which will be assessed by the journal editors, is Friday 15th May. Visit the Labour History website and follow the 'news & offers link' for an application form and details of the terms and conditions.
Zu einer transnationalen Geschichte der Kunst im kommunistischen Europa, 1945-1989 - Berlin 02/09
Pour une histoire transnationale de l'art dans l'Europe communiste, 1945-1989
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Jérôme Bazin, Université de Picardie; Pascal Dubourg Glatigny, Centre Marc Bloch-CNRS; Martin Schieder, Universität Leipzig; Béatrice von Hirschhausen, Centre Marc Bloch-CNRS 16.02.2009, Berlin
Deadline: 15.04.2009
CFP: Midwest Labor and Working Class History Colloquium Purdue University, April 3-4, 2009.
MLWHC is an annual graduate student conference for graduate students working in the field of labor and working class history. This year it will be held at Purdue University, April 3-4. The theme is "Beyond the Workplace: Working Class Culture, Leisure, and Community". We welcome all submissions from graduate students working in labor and working class history.
Labor and Working Class History Association Call for Panel Proposals
for 2010 Annual Conference Washington DC, April 7-10, 2010
The 2010 LAWCHA conference will be held concurrently with the OAH in Washington, DC. LAWCHA plans to arrange up to ten panels during the conference, which will be held April 7-10, 2010.
Please send Kim Phillips ([mailto]klphil@wm.edu[/mailto]) your proposals for panels related to labor and working class history as attachments or in the body of email messages. The proposals should include the following:
Eugene A. Forsey Prize in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History
The Canadian Committe on Labour History invites submissions for the Eugene A. Forsey Prize for graduate and undergraduate work on Canadian labour and working-class history.
XVth World Economic History Congress, Utrecht 2009 3 to 7 August
Call for Papers for a panel on Historical Roots of Poverty and Well-Being in Developing Countries
Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World: British Trade Unions under New Labour
Edited by Gary Daniels and John McIlroy, Keele University, UK
Behrens, Hermann; Hoffmann, Jens; Institut f. Umweltgeschichte u. Regionalentwicklung e.V (Hrsg.): Umweltschutz in der DDR. Analysen und Zeitzeugenberichte (= Band 1: Politische und umweltrechtliche Rahmenbedingungen; Band 2: Mediale und sektorale Aspekte; Band 3: Beruflicher, ehrenamtlicher und freiwilliger Umweltschutz). München:Oekom Verlag 2008. ISBN 978-3-86581-059-5; 1100 S.; EUR 54,80.
