Leonida Bissolati

Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati" comunica:

E' uscito per la collana Strumenti e Fonti il volume:

Leonida Bissolati. Un riformista nell'Italia liberale
a cura di Maurizio Degl'Innocenti
Piero Lacaita Editore
collana Strumenti e Fonti pp. 131
€. 13,00
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21st International Congress of Historical Sciences

21st International Congress of Historical Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2010, 22-28 August.

The International Congress of Historical Sciences takes place every five years. This Congress provides an ideal venue for extensive reports, papers, debates, exchanges, and meetings reflecting historical research in action.

The Congress' themes were adopted by the General Assembly of the CISH of 2007. See also [url]http://www.ichs2010.org/themes.asp[/url]

A Shadow of Red

David Everitt. A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. 411 pp. Index. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-56663-575-2.

Reviewed for Jhistory by Loren Ghiglione, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University

Ellis Island

Lorie Conway. Forgotten Ellis Island: The Extraordinary Story of America's Immigrant Hospital. New York: Smithsonian Books, 2007. 185 pp. Illustrations. $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-06-124196-3.

Reviewed for H-New-Jersey by Sandra Moss, Medical History Society of New Jersey

French Acadians

John Mack Faragher. A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. xx + 562 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $28.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-393-05135-3; $17.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-393-32827-1.

Reviewed for H-NewEngland by Monica Fitzgerald, Department of History, California State University, East Bay

Female Labour Power

Janet Greenlees, Female Labour Power: Women Workers' Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780-1860. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2007. xx + 244 pp. ?55/$100 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-7546-4050-9.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Pamela J. Nickless, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina-Asheville.

Atlantic Slave Trade

Gerald Horne. The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade. New York: New York University Press, 2007. v + 339 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-3688-3; $24.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8147-3689-0.

Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Stephen D. Behrendt, Department of History, Victoria University of Wellington