Call for Papers
The Information Revolution is considered by many to be an epochal shift in contemporary global economic, social, political and cultural history, comparable with the previous major shift of the Industrial Revolution. Scholars continue to explore and analyze the unparalleled rapid development of information and communication network technologies – most recently that of the Internet and World Wide Web.
The Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati" (Florence, Italy) would like to inform about some of the latest volumes published in the Series Società e Cultura (Lacaita Publishing House):
In the series Strumenti e Fonti (Lacaita Publishing House) the following volumes:
Over the past few years the International Institute of Social History has digitized part of the finding aids to its archival collections. Over 400 of them are now online, in HTML or SGML format, or both. They cover the collections of Wolfgang Abendroth, Friedrich and Kathia Adler, Fritz Brupbacher, the Bureau Socialiste International, the Communist Parties of Bangladesh and Egypt, Fedor Dan, the European Trade Union Confederation, Jeanne Humbert, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the Labour and Socialist International, G.P.
Announcing H-Utopia
H-Net List on utopian Studies
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About H-Utopia
Kenneth Morgan, Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. x + 120 pp. $11.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-521-58814-6; $39.95 (hardback), ISBN: 0-521-58213-X.
Reviewed for EH.NET by David Eltis, Department of History, Queen's University.
Published by EH.NET, October 2001.
Pacific Northwest Labour History Association
34th Annual Conference
Vancouver, BC, Canada
June 6-9, 2002
Advance Call for Presentations
YOUTH AND LABOUR
The Pacific Northwest Labour History Association's annual conference…events offer a unique opportunity for trade unionists, workers, activists, students, educators and others interested in the rich heritage of the working class. Participants examine labour history, and about how this history links to todays struggles and circumstances.
Bien présente dans la mémoire collective suisse, la figure du volontaire de la guerre d'Espagne demeure peu explorée dans l'historiographie helvétique. Spontanément, puis de manière organisée, huit cents personnes ont quitté le pays pour s'engager dans la défense de l'Espagne du Front populaire. Si l'on rapporte ce chiffre à la population nationale, on obtient ce résultat surprenant: en dépit d'un cadre politique et légal particulièrement défavorable, la Suisse se place parmi les pays qui ont le plus participé à la guerre!
The Emma Goldman Colloquium organized jointly by the Universities of Berkeley and of Paris VIII was supposed to take place on November 30-December 1st 2001. Due to the tragic events in the world, the organizers think it is best to postpone it. Information concerning it can be gathered at
DEPA
University of Paris VIII
2 rue de la Liberte
F-93526 Saint-Denis
France
Posted: 30 October 2001
Just a note to alert those interested in Wisconsin labor history that we have been able to update our web bibliography with over fifty additional books and articles. In adddition to searching the bibliography by author, by topical subject, and by geographical place name, we have provided a separate list for the items newly added, so users will not have to review the entire list if they had looked at it earlier.
Here's the URL for the now-updated Wisconsin Labor History Bibliography:
The North West Labour History Group (England) is pleased to announced the publication of its annual journal which is a themed issue on the 1960s on the North West. It includes the following articles:
