Last Call for Authors for Encyclopedia of American Reform Movements
The Editors of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of American Reform Movements would like to thank readers of H-Labor for becoming contributors for 23/25 of the contemplated chapter on the Labor Movement. The Editors still are looking for scholars to prepare the remaining two entries:
The Right and Labor: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination February 16-17, 2009 University of California, Santa Barbara
The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites paper proposals for a January 16-17, 2009 conference: "The Right and Labor: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination."
Coll: Auf dem Weg zur modernen Sozialgeschichte. Kolloquium anläßlich des 20. Todestages von Hans Rosenberg (1904-1988)
Historisches Seminar der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf/Stiftung Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus, Düsseldorf 25.06.2008, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Universitätsstr. 1 (Geb. 24. 41, Großer Vortragsraum), 40225 Düsseldorf
Graham Russell Gao Hodges. Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. viii + 225 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-8554-9.
Reviewed for H-Urban by Anne E. Leonard, Library, New York City College of Technology
Published by [mailto]H-Urban@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (April, 2008)
The Cabbie in the Collective Imagination and on the Streets
Christine Rider, ed. Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1920. Two Volumes. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2007. 604 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $225.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-313-33501-3.
Reviewed for H-Albion by Stephen Roberts, Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Published by [mailto]H-Albion@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (April, 2008)
Jamie L. Bronstein. Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. 222 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-0008-5.
Reviewed for H-Albion by Bill Luckin, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
Published by [mailto]H-Albion@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (April, 2008)
En la web asturiasrepublicana.com hemos colocado los siguientes artículos:
Cuba y la guerra con los Estados Unidos (I). telegramas cruzados entre el almirante Cervera y el general Blanco. [url]http://www.asturiasrepublicana.com/piguerrausa2.html[/url]
Cuba y la guerra con los Estados Unidos (II). telegramas cruzados entre el almirante Cervera y el general Blanco.[url]http://www.asturiasrepublicana.com/piguerrausa3.html[/url]
Neue Rezensionen im Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 48 (2008), 7
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Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
wir freuen uns, Ihnen heute wieder Buchbesprechungen zur Sozial- und Zeitgeschichte präsentieren zu können.
IISH News Service June 2, 2008
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New items on the IISH website in May 2008:
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/zurcher-memberknaw.php[/url]
The new director of the IISH Erik-Jan Zürcher is now Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/research/qajar-persia.php[/url]
Conference 'Social Positioning and Every Day Life in Qajar Persia' in Amsterdam and Leiden.
Blind spots and preoccupation in Indonesian and Dutch literature on the decolonization of Indonesia
A seminar organized by the Wertheim Stichting, in cooperation with the International Institute of Social History and the ASIA Platform
