21st International Congress of Historical Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2010, 22-28 August.

The International Congress of Historical Sciences takes place every five years. This Congress provides an ideal venue for extensive reports, papers, debates, exchanges, and meetings reflecting historical research in action.

The Congress' themes were adopted by the General Assembly of the CISH of 2007. See also [url]http://www.ichs2010.org/themes.asp[/url]

David Everitt. A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. 411 pp. Index. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-56663-575-2.

Reviewed for Jhistory by Loren Ghiglione, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University

Jeremy Varon. Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, The Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xiii + 394 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-24119-0.

Reviewed for H-German by Christina Gerhardt, Hamburg Institute for Social Research

Lorie Conway. Forgotten Ellis Island: The Extraordinary Story of America's Immigrant Hospital. New York: Smithsonian Books, 2007. 185 pp. Illustrations. $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-06-124196-3.

Reviewed for H-New-Jersey by Sandra Moss, Medical History Society of New Jersey

John Mack Faragher. A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. xx + 562 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $28.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-393-05135-3; $17.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-393-32827-1.

Reviewed for H-NewEngland by Monica Fitzgerald, Department of History, California State University, East Bay

Janet Greenlees, Female Labour Power: Women Workers' Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780-1860. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2007. xx + 244 pp. ?55/$100 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-7546-4050-9.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Pamela J. Nickless, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina-Asheville.

Gerald Horne. The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade. New York: New York University Press, 2007. v + 339 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-3688-3; $24.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8147-3689-0.

Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Stephen D. Behrendt, Department of History, Victoria University of Wellington

Dorfer, Brigitte: Die Lebensreise der Martha Tausk. Sozialdemokratie und Frauenrechte im Brennpunkt. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag 2007. ISBN 978-3-7065-4539-6; 144 S.; EUR 19,90.

Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Gabriele-Maria Schorn-Stein, Rüsselsheim
E-Mail: [mailto]g.schorn@gmx.de[/mailto]

Kleßmann, Christoph: Geschichte der Sozialpolitik in Deutschland seit 1945. Deutsche Demokratische Republik 1961-1971. Politische Stabilisierung und wirtschaftliche Mobilisierung. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag 2006. ISBN 3-7890-7329-6; 900 S.; EUR 149,00.

Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Jeannette Madarasz, University College London (UCL)
E-Mail: [mailto]jzm1989@gmx.net[/mailto]

Jeffrey R. Smith. A People's War: Germany's Political Revolution, 1913-1918. Lanham: University Press of America, 2007. 213 pp. Bibliography, index. $32.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7618-3642-1.

Reviewed for H-German by Jason Crouthamel, Department of History, Grand Valley State University