Xiaolan Bao. Holding Up More than Half the Sky: Chinese Women GarmentWorkers in New York City, 1948-92. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xvi + 330 pp. Tables, illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-252-02631-4; $22.00 (paper),ISBN 0-252-07350-9.
Reviewed for H-Business by Evan Roberts, Department of History andMinnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota
Not Just Another History of the New York ILGWU
Rüthers, Monica: Moskau bauen von Lenin bis Chruscev. Öffentliche Räume zwischen Utopie, Terror und Alltag. Wien: Böhlau Verlag/Wien 2007. ISBN 978-3-205-77490-6; brosch.; 363 S.; EUR 35,00.
Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Oksana Bulgakowa, Berlin
E-Mail:
Pollock, Ethan: Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2006. ISBN 0-691-12467-1; geb.; 224 S.; EUR 29,98.
Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Dietrich Beyrau, Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
E-Mail: [mailto]osteuropa@uni-tuebingen.de[/mailto]
Angel Smith, Anarchism, Revolution and Reaction. Catalan Labor and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898-1923. International Studies in Social History 8. New York, Berghahn Books, 2007. ISBN: 1-84545-176-7 405 S.; $ 89.95
Reviewed by Gemma Rubí, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
E-Mail: [mailto]gemmarubi@telefonica.net[/mailto]
Published by H-Soz-u-Kult
Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928-35
Author: Randi Storch
Angelo Segrillo. Herdeiros de Lenin: A historia dos partidos comunistas na Russia pos-sovietica. Rio de Janeiro: 7 Letras Publishers/Rio de Janeiro State Foundation for Research Support, 2003. 148 pp. Index, bibliography, list of sources, list of acronyms. R$25.00 (paper. in Brazilian currency), ISBN 978-85-7577-032-0.
Reviewed by: Carlos Eduardo Rebello de Mendonça, Rio de Janeiro State University.
Published by: H-Russia (December, 2007)
The Resilience of Old-Style Communism
Tourism history of socialist countries
2008 year's panel
Tourism and the environment in socialist countries
The International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) invites proposals for papers to be presented at the Sixth International Conference on the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, to be held in Ottawa, Canada, between the 18th and 21st of September, 2008.
International Conference of Economic and Social History
New Perspectives in Theory and Empirical Research
Rethymno, Crete, December 2008
La casa editrice Infinito edizioni presenta:
Los italianos: Antifascisti nella guerra civile spagnoladi Franco Sprega e Ivano Tagliaferri
foto di copertina di Robert Capa
venerdì 15 febbraio, ore 21
presso l'associazione La Curandera, via Guerralunga, 6, Gragnano Trebbiense (PC),
Saranno presenti gli Autori
A celebration of the life and work of Ruth Frow will take place on Saturday 5 April beginning promptly at 2pm. The venue will be Peel Hall, University of Salford which is situated immediately opposite the library on the university campus. It is easily accessible by public transport.
For details please visit the Working Class Movement Library website at [url]http://www.wcml.org.uk[/url].
