Wolfgang Abendroth

Buckmiller, Michael; Perels, Joachim; Schöler, Uli (Hrsg.): Wolfgang Abendroth. Gesammelte Schriften Bd. 1. 1926-1948. Hannover: Offizin Verlag 2006. ISBN 978-3-930345-49-6; 585 S.; EUR 36,80.

Heigl, Richard: Oppositionspolitik. Wolfgang Abendroth und die Entstehung der Neuen Linken (= Argument Sonderband 303). Hamburg: Argument-Verlag 2008. ISBN 978-3-88619-333-2; 372 S.; EUR 24,90.

Beer and Revolution (II)

Tom Goyens. Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 263 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03175-5.

Reviewed by Thomas Adam (University of Texas at Arlington)
Published on H-German (March, 2009)
Commissioned by Susan R. Boettcher

"There were no bombs, though there was plenty of beer"[1]

Social Movements in the West

Habbo Knoch. Bürgersinn mit Weltgefühl: Politische Moral und solidarischer Protest in den sechziger und siebziger Jahren. Veröffentlichungen des Zeitgeschichtlichen Arbeitskreises Niedersachsen. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2007. 334 pp. ISBN 978-3-8353-0068-2; EUR 32.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-8353-0068-2.

Reviewed by Michael L. Hughes (Wake Forest University)
Published on H-German (February, 2009)
Commissioned by Eve M. Duffy

Slavery in the Americas

Juanita De Barros, Audra Diptee, David V. Trotman, eds. Beyond Fragmentation: A Pan-Caribbean Look at Slavery, Emancipation, and Colonialization. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2005. 360 pp. ISBN 978-1-55876-358-6; $28.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55876-358-6.

Reviewed by Christer Petley
Published on H-Caribbean (February, 2009)
Commissioned by Clare Newstead

Pan-Caribbean Perspectives on the Past

Streikgeschichten

Clasen, Claus-Peter: Streikgeschichten. Die Augsburger Textilarbeiterstreiks 1868-1934 (= Studien zur Geschichte des bayerischen Schwaben 38). Augsburg: Wißner-Verlag 2008. ISBN 978-3-89639-647-1; geb.; 344 S.; EUR 24,80.

Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Christian Koller, School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology, Bangor University
E-Mail: [mailto]c.koller@bangor.ac.uk[/mailto]

Gender, Work and Wages

Joyce Burnette. Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain. Cambridge Studies in Economic History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii + 377 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-88063-3.

Reviewed by Anne Clendinning (Department of History, Nipissing University)
Published on H-Albion (March, 2009)
Commissioned by David S. Karr

Master and Servant

Carolyn Steedman. Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 262 pp. $91.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-87446-5; $32.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-69773-6.

Reviewed by Susannah Ottaway (Carleton College)
Published on H-Albion (February, 2009)
Commissioned by David S. Karr

Domestic Servants, Anglican Clergymen, and Happy Endings in the English Industrial Age