Stephen J. Pitti. The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. 320 pp. Figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-09287-7.

Reviewed for H-California by Robert I. Cruickshank, Department of History, University of Washington
Published by H-California (June 2003).

Stefan Berger. Social Democracy and the Working Class in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Germany. Themes in Modern German History. London and New York: Longman, 2000. xiii + 280 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, maps, index. $95.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-582-29814-8.

Reviewed by William Patch, Department of History, Grinnell College.
Published by H-German (July, 2003).

Bridget Hill. Women Alone: Spinsters in England, 1660-1850. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. viii + 220 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $37.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-300-08820-5.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Belinda Peters, Irvine, California. Published by H-Albion (June 2003).

Surviving Without a Husband

Images from the TUC Library Collection at London Metropolitan University have been added to IALHI's web museum.

Andrew M. Drozd. Chernyshevskii's What Is to Be Done?: A Reevaluation. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2001. ix + 332 pp. Preface, chronology, introduction, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8101-1739-8.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Roger E. Chapman, Department of Social Sciences, Lincoln Trail College. Published by H-Russia (July 2003).

The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) is pleased to announce the publication of e-Dossier No. 7, "Operation Manuel: Czechoslovakia and Cuba," featuring documents were found by a team of researchers headed by Oldrich Tuma in the archives of the Ministry of the Interior in Prague and introduced by Daniela Spenser (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (Mexico City). To access the e-Dossier, go to cwihp.si.edu.

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung -- Library
International and European Trade Union Organisations -- New publications

Recently the archive and library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung have published two titles concerning the International and European labour movement:

Jonathan A. Grant. Big Business in Russia: The Putilov Company in Late Imperial Russia, 1868-1917. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. viii + 203 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8229-4110-4.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Clayton Black, Department of History, Washington College. Published by H-Russia (June 2003).

Comrades and Cousins: Globalization, Workers and Labour Movements in Britain, the USA and Australia from the 1880s to 1914, by Neville Kirk

The major aim of this book of is both to fill gaps in and further develop the field of cross-national comparative labour history.

The focus rests upon organised labour's attitudes and practices towards class, race and politics in Britain, Australia and the USA during the era of 'new imperialism', 1880s-1914. The book teases out similarities and differences among nations.

Monica Chojnacka. Working Women of Early Modern Venice. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 118th series, vol. 3. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xxii + 188 pp. Illustrations, tables, map, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-6485-2.

Reviewed for H-Italy by Carole Collier Frick, Department of Historical Studies, Southern Illinois University. Published by H-Italy (June 2003).