An American in Hitler's BerlinBook ann: University of Illinois
From Catherine Collomp [mailto]catherine.collomp@orange.fr[/mailto]

We are pleased to announce the publication of the following book:

An American in Hitler's Berlin, Abraham Plotkin's Diary, 1932-33, edited and with an introduction by Catherine Collomp and Bruno Groppo, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 2009, 206 pages, Paperback edition.

The International Labour Organization and the Quest for Social Justice 1919-2009
Gerry Rodgers, Eddy Lee, Lee Swepston and Jasmien Van Daele Geneva-Ithaca, ILO-Cornell University Press, 2009, 272 pages.

Resource: New project of the Digital South Asia Library - LASA (Libraries and Archives in South Asia) wiki
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From Jim Nye [mailto]jnye@midway.uchicago.edu[/mailto]

Dear H-Asia members,

Amsab-ISG nieuwsbrief: 1 mei
4e jaargang, nr 4, mei 2009

BWP-verslagboeken gedigitaliseerd

Achter de schermen van de Belgische Werkliedenpartij: unieke bron voor de geschiedenis van België gedigitaliseerd

Speciale aanbieding voor 1 mei!

Grote korting op 3 gloednieuwe boeken! Wacht niet te lang. De actie loopt van vrijdag 1 mei tot en met vrijdag 15 mei 2009.

Erfgoeddag 26 april 2009 'Uit vriendschap!'

New items on the IISH website in April 2009:

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/service.php[/url]
The IISH reading room is closed from Thursday 30 April until Tuesday 5 May 2009 included.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/rheinischezeitung/[/url]
On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day (3 May), the IISH calls attention to Prussian censorship and Karl Marx's brief career as an editor for the Rheinische Zeitung.

Vol.5 no.2 (April 2009)

Click to Download Volume 5 No. 2

The following are the contents of this issue.

Contents
Editorial

Articles

• Kingsley Awang Ollong, Sub Saharan Africa at Bay in the Wake of the 21st Century
• Nataliya Gorodnia, Globalisation: Emergence and Evolution
• Antara Mitra, Thickening the 'Thin Globalisation': Globalisation, Inequality and Human Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Symposia South

Buckmiller, Michael; Perels, Joachim; Schöler, Uli (Hrsg.): Wolfgang Abendroth. Gesammelte Schriften Bd. 1. 1926-1948. Hannover: Offizin Verlag 2006. ISBN 978-3-930345-49-6; 585 S.; EUR 36,80.

Heigl, Richard: Oppositionspolitik. Wolfgang Abendroth und die Entstehung der Neuen Linken (= Argument Sonderband 303). Hamburg: Argument-Verlag 2008. ISBN 978-3-88619-333-2; 372 S.; EUR 24,90.

Tom Goyens. Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 263 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03175-5.

Reviewed by Thomas Adam (University of Texas at Arlington)
Published on H-German (March, 2009)
Commissioned by Susan R. Boettcher

"There were no bombs, though there was plenty of beer"[1]

Habbo Knoch. Bürgersinn mit Weltgefühl: Politische Moral und solidarischer Protest in den sechziger und siebziger Jahren. Veröffentlichungen des Zeitgeschichtlichen Arbeitskreises Niedersachsen. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2007. 334 pp. ISBN 978-3-8353-0068-2; EUR 32.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-8353-0068-2.

Reviewed by Michael L. Hughes (Wake Forest University)
Published on H-German (February, 2009)
Commissioned by Eve M. Duffy

Juanita De Barros, Audra Diptee, David V. Trotman, eds. Beyond Fragmentation: A Pan-Caribbean Look at Slavery, Emancipation, and Colonialization. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2005. 360 pp. ISBN 978-1-55876-358-6; $28.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55876-358-6.

Reviewed by Christer Petley
Published on H-Caribbean (February, 2009)
Commissioned by Clare Newstead

Pan-Caribbean Perspectives on the Past