Left History is currently seeking submissions from new and established scholars for a special theme issue on the emerging field of Active History. Working in collaboration with the editors of ActiveHistory.ca and drawing on the discussions that were initiated at the Active History: History for the Future Conference held at Glendon College in September 2008, Left History is looking for original articles, theoretical pieces, document analyses, and reviews that question and challenge the public responsibility of the historian.

CFP: Social and Economic Restructuring: Midwest Labor and Working Class History Colloquium, 2010

Inaugural Issue: Economic History of Developing Regions

Dear Economic Historian,

The South African Economic History Society is the largest Economic History society on the African continent. The society is proud to introduce our new journal - Economic History of Developing Regions, formerly the South African Journal of Economic History - now published by Taylor & Francis. The inaugural edition of the journal is due June 2010, and we are now actively soliciting submissions for this and future issues.

Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel
(Hardback - 1 Jan 2010)
By Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
ISBN 9781845401931
Imprint Academic

It can be purchased with a discount via the publisher's website or otherwise from most alternative online booksellers.

IISH News Service March 1, 2010
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New items on the IISH website in February 2010:

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/acquisitions2009.php[/url]
A selection of recent acquisitions

Francis King. The Narodniks in the Russian Revolution. Socialist History Occasional Pamphlet Series. London Socialist History Society, 2007. Illustrations. 114 pp. No price listed (paper), ISBN 978-0-9555138-2-4.

Sarah Badcock. Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2007. 280 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-87623-0.

Reviewed by Lutz Haefner
Published on H-HistGeog (June, 2009)
Commissioned by Eva M. Stolberg

Mittelweg 36. Zeitschrift des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung 19 (2010), 1

Die am 15. Februar erschienene neue Ausgabe des Mittelweg 36 ist Reinhard Müller gewidmet, der sich seit den frühen 1990er-Jahren am Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung der Stalinismus-Forschung verschrieben hat. Anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstags wurde eine internationale Tagung zu deren aktuellen Perspektiven ausgerichtet, die einige der in dieser Ausgabe aufgenommenen Beiträge reflektieren.

Society for the Study of Labour History, 1960-2010
50th Anniversary Conference

Fifty Years of Labour History: Past Achievements, Future Prospects
Saturday, 15 May 2010
People's History Museum, Spinningfields, Manchester
The programme for the day is as follows:

10.00-10.30: Registration and Coffee

10.30am Welcome
Dr Alan Campbell, Chair, SSLH
Dr Nick Mansfield, Director, People's History Museum

Lara Vapnek's new book, Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920 (University of Illinois Press) tells the story of American labor feminism from the end of the Civil War through the winning of woman suffrage.

During this period, working women in the nation's industrializing cities launched a series of campaigns to gain economic equality and political power. This book shows how working women pursued equality by claiming new identities as citizens and as breadwinners.

Archief van Amnesty International!
Amsab-ISG verwerft het archief van Amnesty International Vlaanderen: zo'n 467 dozen, goed voor bijna 60 strekkende meter archief.
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