ANNOUNCING H-Migration: H-Net Network on the Global History of Migration

Sponsored by H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences On-line, Michigan State University and by the International Institute for Social History Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

ABOUT H-Migration

We hereby wish to inform you about the forthcoming International Congress "Consuming against Capitalism? Co-operatives seen from an InternationalComparative Perspective", Ghent, 16-17 October 2003. For more details, please go to www.amsab.be/co/coop.htm.

Best regards,

Dr. Wouter STEENHAUT
Director
Bagattenstraat 174
B9000 Gent
email info@amsab.be

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).

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

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.

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.

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

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)

At the ESSHC in Berlin 2004 a session on Horse-racing, Gambling and the Working-Class will be arranged. At the moment only Swedish people have made paper proposals. However, it would be fruitful to have papers from other countries as well. Therefore, we invite people interested in the topic to make paper proposals. Deadline is 15 May.

Mats Greiff
Mats.Greiff@lut.mah.se

XIIIth International Oral History Conference
Rome, Italy, 23-26 June 2004

Call for Papers