Announcement: 2008 Kenny prize lecture, Thursday May 8, 4pm
This year the Robert S. Kenny prize for outstanding work in the field of Marxist and labour/left studies has been awarded to Andrée Lévesque for her book Red Travellers: Jeanne Corbin & Her Comrades published by McGill Queen's University Press.
Ámbitos: Boletín Digital de Actividades número 36 - Marzo de 2008
Lesemann, Silke; Lubinski, Axel: Ländliche Ökonomien. Arbeit und Gesellung in der frühneuzeitlichen Agrargesellschaft. Berlin: BWV Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag 2007. ISBN 3-8305-1375-5; 286 S.; EUR 34,00.
Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:Niels Grüne, Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft, Philosophie und Theologie, Universität BielefeldE-Mail: [mailto]ngruene@geschichte.uni-bielefeld.de[/mailto]
[Session 3 is devoted to: "Worker organisations and repression on the Railways: an international view"]
V Congreso de Historia Ferroviaria - Segunda llamada / 5th Railway History Congress - Second Call / V Congrès d'Histoire Ferroviaire - Deuxième appel
Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli - Newsletter n. 6 - 18 aprile 2008
Le novità della Fondazione e del sito
[url]http://www.fondazionefeltrinelli.it[/url]
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Füssel, Stephan (Hrsg.): Die Politisierung des Buchmarkts. 1968 als Branchenereignis (= Mainzer Studien zur Buchwissenschaft 15). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2007. ISBN 978-3-447-05590-1; 352 S.; EUR 68,00.
Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Claus Kröger, SFB 584 "Das Politische als Kommunikationsraum in der Geschichte", Universität Bielefeld
E-Mail: [mailto]claus.kroeger@uni-bielefeld.de[/mailto]
A new book on Herbert Read has just been published by the Freedom Press, London.
It is called Re-Reading Read: New Views on Herbert Read, and contains sixteen essays on Read's writings on anarchism, art, literature and general culture, by authors including Dana Ward, Allan Antliff and Jerry Zaslove. The book is edited by Michael Paraskos.
It is very well illustrated in full colour, 240 pages, and is published by the Freedom Press, London. ISBN: 978-190449-1088.
Price for the paperback is £19.95.
Zerback, Ralf: Robert Blum. Eine Biografie. Leipzig: Lehmstedt Verlag 2007. ISBN 978-3-937146-45-4; geb.; 368 S., 54 Abb.; EUR 19,90.
Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Ansgar Reiß, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
E-Mail: [mailto]ansgarreiss@web.de[/mailto]
Helen Harden Chenut. The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. vii + 448 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, index. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-271-02520-4.
Reviewed for H-Women by Lela Felter-Kerley, Department of History, University of South Florida
Published by [mailto]H-Women@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (February 2008)
Recently published: Guide to the South Asian Oral History Collections at the IISH. These include social movements of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, such as such as the Naxalite movement, the peasant uprisings of Telengana and Srikakulam, and the Bangladesh Liberation War.
