The Musée Social

Janet R. Horne. A Social Laboratory for Modern France: The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. xiii + 354 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, index. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-2782-1; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8223-2792-9.

Reviewed by Robert Beck, Université de Tours, France.
Published by H-Mediterranean (April, 2003).

Migrant Labour in Southeast Asia

International Conference:
Migrant Labour in Southeast Asia: Needed, Not Wanted
to be held at
Faculty of Economics, Business and Law
The University of New England,
Armidale, Australia
1-3 December, 2003

First Circular and Call for Papers

Invitation

The Conference conveners cordially invite you to participate in an international conference Migrant Labour in Southeast Asia: Needed, Not Wanted, to be held at The University of New England from 1-3 December, 2003.

Conference Theme

Aspects of China

Call for Papers

The Chinese Historical Review (ISSN 10043-643X) invites manuscripts of original research, reviews, and research notes concerning all aspects and time periods of Chinese history, China-foreign relations, and the Chinese diaspora. Manuscripts with comparative perspectives on history are also welcome.

Port Cities in Western Europe

Richard Lawton and Robert Lee, eds. Population and Society in Western European Port Cities, c. 1650-1939. Liverpool Studies in European Population, vol. 2. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2002. xvi + 385 pp. Tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $75.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-85323-435-3; $28.95 (paper), ISBN 0-85323-907-X.

Labour in Nigeria

We Were All Slaves: African Miners, Culture and Resistance at the Enugu Government Colliery, Nigeria
Carolyn Brown (Carolyn Brown is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Jersey)
Series: Social History of Africa
Series Editors: Allen Isaacman and Jean Allman

The Soviet Takeover of Eastern Poland

Jan T. Gross. Revolution from Abroad: the Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorusssia. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 2002. xxiv + 396 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $44.89 (cloth). ISBN 0-691-09603-1.

Reviewed for H-RUSSIA by Johanna Granville, Hoover Institution, Stanford University (May 2003).

Occupation by a Spoiler State: the Soviet Takeover of Eastern Poland (1939-1941)