Ab Imperio

Ab Imperio editors are pleased to announce the release of the fourth issue of the journal in 2007. Ab Imperio is a bilingual (English Russian) international scholarly journal dedicated to the study of empire and nationalism in the post Soviet space.

Der Samisdat in der DDR

Samisdat und Öffentlichkeit. Kommunikation und Wahrnehmung der Opposition in den 70er und 80er Jahren in der DDR
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Thüringer Archiv für Zeitgeschichte "Matthias Domaschk", Jena 17.05.2008, Carl-Zeiss-Campus der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Raum 315, Carl-Zeiss-Straße 3, Jena

Konsum-, Produktiv- und Wohnungsgenossenschaften

Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch und die Konsum-, Produktiv- und Wohnungsgenossenschaften

Universität Hamburg - Arbeitsstelle für Genossenschaftsgeschichte, Heinrich-Kaufmann-Stiftung, Stiftung genossenschaftliches Archiv, Geschichtswerk eG, Adolph von Elm Institut für Genossenschaftsgeschichte e.V., Berlin-Oranienburg 25.04.2008-26.04.2008, Eden eG, Struveweg 501, 16515 Oranienburg
Deadline: 18.04.2008

Human Rights and Revolutions

Jeffrey N. Wassertrom, Greg Grandin, Lynn Hunt, and Marilyn B. Young, eds. Human Rights and Revolutions. Second Edition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. 225 pp. Table of contents, bibliographical references, index. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7425-5513-6; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7425-5514-3.

Reviewed by: Christian W. Erickson, Department of Political Science, Roosevelt University.Published by: H-Human-Rights (February, 2008)

Rights and Revolutions, Paradoxes and Promises

Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution

This is a third call for authors for the on-going Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution. Facts on File,Americas leading reference work publisher, has commissioned The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History. Co-Editors Dr. Kenneth E. Hendrickson and Dr. Glenn Sanford are seeking contributing authors to write entry articles.

Read more at [url]http://www.ventumusa.com/IR/[/url]

Lucien Van Der Walt

The journal Labor History has awarded Lucien Van Der Walt of Wits Sociology its international prize for the best Ph.D. dissertation of 2007 for his thesis on 'Anarchism and Syndicalism in South Africa,1904-1921: rethinking the history of labour and the left'. Labor History, published by Routledge, is widely considered the pre-eminent journal for historical scholarship in its field in the world. The highly prestigious and competitive prize is awarded for the best Ph.D. on a labour topic, historical or contemporary, regardless of discipline, and draws entrants worldwide.