Social Sciences in Japan

Andrew E. Barshay, The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: The Marxian and Modernist Tradition. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004.xiv + 331 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-520-23645-9.

Reviewed by: Brian J. McVeigh, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona. Published by: H-US-Japan (December, 2004)

Fondazione Filippo Turati

Book Presentation:

"IL CENTRO-SINISTRA E LA RIFORMA DELLA SCUOLA MEDIA"
Firenze, 3 dicembre 2004, ore 9.30
Casa Lapi - ex Palazzo Coppi
via Michelangelo Buonarroti, 13

In occasione della presentazione del volume Il centro-sinistra e la riforma della scuola media (1962) di Massimo BALDACCI, Franco CAMBI, Carlo G. LACAITA, Maurizio DEGL'INNOCENTI, Casa editrice Lacaita 2004, Collana "Strumenti e Fonti".

Women in Ports

'Sisters are doing it for themselves': Women and Informal Port Economies

A two-day conference to be held jointly at the School of History, University of Liverpool, and Merseyside Maritime Museum, 24th and 25th June 2005.

Keynote speakers: Dr Tapio Bergholm, Universities of Helsinki and Joensuu, Finland and Dr Trevor Burnard, Sussex University, UK.

The Profintern

A new book on the Profintern, just published in Germany and therefore, unfortunately for many readers, in German. Nevertheless, the bibliographical data are as follows:

Reiner Tosstorff, Profintern. Die Rote Gewerkschaftsinternationale 1920-1937, Paderborn: Schoeningh, 2004, 791 pp, ISBN 3-506-71793-6.

Telegraph Messenger Boys

Gregory J. Downey, Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology and Geography, 1850-1950. New York: Routledge, 2002. xiii + 242 pp. $95.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-415-93108-8; $25.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-415-93109-6.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Tomas Nonnenmacher, Department of Economics, Allegheny College. Published by EH.NET (November 2004).

Coal-Mining and Heritage

University of Leeds Centre for Heritage Research in collaboration with the National Coal Mining Museum of England and YorkshireMuseums, Libraries and Archives Council

SEMINAR: COAL-MINING AND HERITAGE - TWENTY YEARS ON

Friday 26 November 2004
2.30 - 6.00pm
Venue: National Coal-mining Museum
New Road, Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4 4RH