The German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, is now accepting applications for a six-month fellowship in American or European Economic and Social History, with the possibility of extending it to one year (depending on the availability of funding). Preference is given to applicants on the postdoctoral level. The Fellow is expetcted to be in residence at the GHI and participate in GHI activities and events, including planning an economic/social history workshop.

Estimados Señores:

Tenemos el gusto de enviarles carta de presentación del nuevo Presidente de nuestra Fundación.

Reciban un cordial saludo

Carmen Feijóo
Secretaría Dirección

Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero
C/ Antonio Grilo, 10
28015 Madrid
Tel.: 91.548.48.99
Fax: 91.542.31.40
mail: [mailto]fflc@cec.ugt.org[/mailto]
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Newsletter n. 15 - 12 maggio 2009
Le novità della Fondazione e del sito
[url]http://www.fondazionefeltrinelli.it[/url]

E' online [url]http://www.progettorisorgimento.it[/url], il portale tematico del progetto - "Il Risorgimento e la nascita dell'Italia contemporanea" - che vedrà impegnata la Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in collaborazione con l'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia e la Fondazione Istituto Gramsci.

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Clelia Caruso, Jenny Pleinen, Lutz Raphael. Postwar Mediterranean Migration to Western Europe: La migration méditerranéenne en Europe occidentale après 1945. Legal and Political Frameworks, Sociability and Memory Cultures. Droit et politique, sociabilité et mémoires. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang/Frankfurt, 2008. 261 S. $65.95 (paper), ISBN 978-3-631-58323-4.

Reviewed by Monika Mattes
Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (April, 2009)

Wagner, Andrea: Die Entwicklung des Lebensstandards in Deutschland zwischen 1920 und 1960 (= Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 12). Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2008. ISBN 978-3-05-004332-6; geb.; 405 S.; EUR 79,80.

Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Mark Spoerer, Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris
E-Mail: [mailto]mspoerer@dhi-paris.fr[/mailto]

Sozialgeschichte der Arbeit 'nach dem Boom'. Deutschland und Europa seit den siebziger Jahren

Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam; Jena Center Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Potsdam 28.05.2009-29.05.2009, Vortragsraum des ZZF, Am Neuen Markt 9 d, 14467 Potsdam

As some of the members of this list may know, The Progressive magazine turned 100 this year. To mark its centennial, its editors have brought out a volume titled Democracy in Print: The Best of The Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (University of Wisconsin Press).

Richter, Sebastian: Norm und Eigensinn. Die Selbstlegitimation politischen Protests in der DDR 1985-1989 (= Zeitgeschichten 4). Berlin: Metropol Verlag 2007. ISBN 978-3-938690-62-8; 223 S.; EUR 18,00.

Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Thomas Klein, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam
E-Mail: [mailto]klein@zzf-pdm.de[/mailto]

Getty, J. Arch; Naumov, Oleg V.: Yezhov. The Rise of Stalin's "Iron Fist". New Haven: Yale University Press 2008. ISBN 978-0-300-09205-9; geb.; 320 S.; EUR 34,99.

Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Claudia Weber, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung
E-Mail: [mailto]claudia.weber@his-online.de[/mailto]

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