Borders of Socialism
From: Lewis Siegelbaum [siegelba@msu.edu]
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 9:26 AM
Subject: Call for papers
Borders of Socialism: The Private Sphere in the Soviet Union
From: Lewis Siegelbaum [siegelba@msu.edu]
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 9:26 AM
Subject: Call for papers
Borders of Socialism: The Private Sphere in the Soviet Union
Announcing H-Slavery: H-Net Network on the History of Slavery
Sponsored by H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences Online and The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University
About H-Slavery
H-Slavery seeks to promote interaction and exchange among scholars engaged in research on slavery, the slave trade, abolition, and emancipation. It is dedicated to the dissemination of information about the history of slavery and antislavery in all time periods and parts of the world.
Three German titles that might be of interest to labour historians were recently reviewed on H-Net discussion lists:
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Hedwig Schmidt-Herold:
Beate Althammer. Herrschaft, Fürsorge, Protest. Eliten und Unterschichten in den Textilgewerbestädten Aachen und Barcelona 1830-1870. Bonn: Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin, 2002. 660 S. EUR 66, ISBN 3-8012-4125-4.
www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=131831070405446
Herewith a reminder that the 1905 revolution will be the subject of the XXX Annual Conference of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution, scheduled for 3-5 January at Nottingham, UK.
Amira El-Azhary Sonbol. Women of Jordan: Islam, Labor and the Law. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003. i + 300 pp. Index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8156-2964-8; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8156-2985-0.
Reviewed for H-Levant by Sally K. Gallagher, Department of Sociology, Oregon State University
Published by H-Levant@h-net.msu.edu (October 2003)
The Difference between What Is Legal and What Is Real
Theory as History
Ernest Mandel's historical analysis of world capitalism
Conference at the International Institute of Social History
Amsterdam, November 10-11, 2003
For participants and papers see the programme
For more information contact Jan-Willem Stutje ([MAILTO]jst@iisg.nl[/MAILTO])
Empires and Resistance: the Rise and Fall of Great Powers
Call for Papers
A conference to be held on Saturday 8th May 2004, at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU.
We are currently witnessing an expansion of US military power on a scale not seen since the Vietnam war - but as historians we know that Empires fall as well as rise.
In this context, the London Socialist Historians Group is organising a conference to discuss the historical issues raised.
The Labour History Archive and Study Centre holds the archives of the Labour Party and the British Communist Party as well as collections that document many aspects of the history of radical political struggle in the UK since the mid-nineteenth century.
As part of a programme of activities designed to promote the study of the collections to new audiences we are organising a day conference called Culture in Radical Politics.
City, Industry, and Environment in Transatlantic Perspective
Philadelphia, April 16-17, 2004
Call for Papers
The Chemical Heritage Foundation invites proposals for papers on urban environmental history in North America, the British Isles, continental Europe, Latin America and other regions constituting the Atlantic world.
Announcement of Labor History Authors' Bill of Rights, Royalty Fund and Digitisation Project