Port Economics

From: Tapio Bergholm

Making Global and Local Connections: Historical Perspectives on Port Economics

Call for Papers for a port history session of the XIV International Economic History Congress IEHC, Helsinky, Finland, 21-25 August 2006 and a pre-conference to be held in Kotka (Finland), 18-20 August 2006

Files of the Communist Party of Japan

Free online inventory in Comintern online

IDC Publishers is pleased to announce that a free online inventory (in English and Russian) is available for the collection Files of the Communist Party of Japan. This finding aid is part of Comintern online, that comprises an inventory to the complete Comintern Archives of 55,000,000 pages.

Access to the Comintern online inventory is free after registering at www.comintern-online.com.

Willemijn Lindhout ()
IDC Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Ports, Borders, and Labor

From: Peter Kardas,

Ports, Borders, and Labor in the Pacific Northwest
The 38th Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association
Co-Sponsored by the Labor Center at The Evergreen State College
June 2 - 4, 2006
Location: Olympia (WA) Campus, The Evergreen State College

We invite your ideas and participation in planning a conference which will bring together union and community activists and scholars. Workshops, Panels, & Cultural Presentations will focus on (among other things):

Russian Studies

Call for Applications

International Centre for Russian Studies - Summer History Workshop, 22-24 June 2005, Moscow(www.icrs.ru/news/)

Interdisciplinary Centre for Studies in History, Economy and Society (Moscow, Russia)
Davis Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA)
International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (Moscow, Russia)
State Socio-Political Library (Moscow, Russia)

Masters, Servants, and Magistrates

H-Net Book Review
Published by [MAILTO]H-Albion@h-net.msu.edu[/MAILTO] (April 2005)

Douglas Hay and Paul Craven (eds.), Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955. Studies in Legal History Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xi + 592 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2877-7.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Phil Withington, Department of History, University of Aberdeen

Agents of the Revolution

From: Grütter Thomas ()

Peter Lang - European Academic Publishers are pleased to announce a new book by Kevin Morgan / Gidon Cohen / Andrew Flinn (eds.), Agents of the Revolution. New Biographical Approaches to the History of International Communism in the Age of Lenin and Stalin, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2005. 319 pp., 6 tables, ISBN 3-03910-075-0 / US-ISBN 0-8204-6891-6 pb.

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