Christian F. Ostermann. Uprising in East Germany 1953: The Cold War, The German Question, and The First Major Upheaval Behind the Iron Curtain. National Security Archive Cold War Readers. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2001. xxxvii + 451 pp. Index. $63.95 (cloth), ISBN 963-9241-17-2.
Reviewed by Ruud van Dijk, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Published by H-German (March, 2002).
David R. Stone. Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union 1926-1933. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. viii + 287 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7006-1037-5.
Reviewed by Lohr E Miller, Louisiana State University.
Published by H-Russia (January, 2002).
The Crime of Moderation
Political Pressure and the Archival Record
Liverpool University - LUCAS - Centre for Archival Studies
Liverpool, UK, 22-25 July 2003
Preliminary Call for Papers -- Keynote Speakers
The principal themes of this international conference are:
With the addition of a detailed inventory of the Bund (Jewish Social Democratic Party) archive the web guide to the unique and manifold yiddish collection of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam is now completed. Please see:
www.iisg.nl/collections/yiddish/yidsearch.html#bund
Karin Hofmeester [MAILTO]kho@iisg.nl[/MAILTO]
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
www.iisg.nl
Venus Green. Race on the Line: Gender, Labor and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. xv + 370. Illustrations, tables, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-2554-3; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8223-2573-x.
Reviewed for H-South by Michael French, Department of Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow, Scotland. April 2002.
Glenn Adler and Eddie Webster, eds. Trade Unions and Democratization in South Africa, 1985-1997. International Political Economy Series. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xvii + 238 pp. Tables, maps, bibliography, index. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-312-22253-X.
Reviewed by Franco Barchiesi, Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Published by H-SAfrica (February, 2002)
Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson. Adolf Douai, 1819-1888: The Turbulent Life of a German Forty-Eighter in the Homeland and in the United States. New German American Studies; Neue Deutsch-Amerikanische Studien. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. 364 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $67.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8204-4881-8.
Reviewed by Walter D. Kamphoefner, Department of History, Texas A&M University.
Published by H-GAGCS (January, 2002)
Southwest Labor Studies Association Conference
May 9-11, 2002
California State University
Los Angeles 5151 State University Dr
Theme "Globalization, Labor, and Inequality Within and Across Borders"
Thursday, May 9
5:00 Registration-Program Area, University Student Union (2nd Floor)
6:00-9:00 Film and Reception: "Made in India" Maxwell Theatre
Friday, May 10
8:00 Registration-Program Area, University Student Union (2nd Floor)
Session 1 9:00-10:30
On March 22th, 2002 the Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati" has moved.
The new address is:
Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati"
Palazzo Coppi
via Michelangelo Buonarroti, 13
I-50122 - Firenze
tel +39-55.243123
fax +39-55.2008280
e-mail fondazione.turati@pertini.it
website www.pertini.it/turati.html
Wages and Currency: Global and Historical Comparisons
Symposium in Amsterdam/Leiden, 24-25 May 2002
Convenors: International Institute of Social History (IISH), Amsterdam, and National Collection of Coins and Medals (KPK: Koninklijk Penningkabinet), Leiden (in cooperation with 'Labour 1500-2000')
