Jeremy Varon. Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, The Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 394 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-24119-0.
Reviewed for H-German by Christina Gerhardt, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
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
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
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.
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
Dorfer, Brigitte: Die Lebensreise der Martha Tausk. Sozialdemokratie und Frauenrechte im Brennpunkt. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag 2007. ISBN 978-3-7065-4539-6; 144 S.; EUR 19,90.
Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Gabriele-Maria Schorn-Stein, Rüsselsheim
E-Mail: [mailto]g.schorn@gmx.de[/mailto]
Kleßmann, Christoph: Geschichte der Sozialpolitik in Deutschland seit 1945. Deutsche Demokratische Republik 1961-1971. Politische Stabilisierung und wirtschaftliche Mobilisierung. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag 2006. ISBN 3-7890-7329-6; 900 S.; EUR 149,00.
Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Jeannette Madarasz, University College London (UCL)
E-Mail: [mailto]jzm1989@gmx.net[/mailto]
Jeffrey R. Smith. A People's War: Germany's Political Revolution, 1913-1918. Lanham: University Press of America, 2007. 213 pp. Bibliography, index. $32.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7618-3642-1.
Reviewed for H-German by Jason Crouthamel, Department of History, Grand Valley State University
The 21st century global subsistence crisis in historical perspectiveConvenors: Eric Vanhaute, Ghent University, Belgium; Mark Tauger, West Virginia University, USAUtrecht, Netherlands3-7 Aug 2009Deadline: 15.08.2009
Thursday, May 28- Sunday, May 31, 2009
Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Sponsored by the Labor and Working-Class History Association and the Fund for Labor Culture and History (Laborlore Conversations IV)
