Joel Perlmann and Robert A. Margo. Women's Work? American Schoolteachers, 1650-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x + 188 pp. Bibliography. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-226-66039-7.
Reviewed by Susan B. Carter, Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside.
Published by EH.Net (July, 2002)
Lucy Parsons was an African, Native and Mexican-American revolutionary anarchist labor organizer who was at the forefront of peace and justice struggles her entire life. This new and exciting website is a tribute to Lucy Parsons, her work, and the causes she championed. It covers Lucy Parsons, the Haymarket affair, anarchism, the IWW and more. When you have some time please take a look...
ANNOUNCING H-Migration: H-Net Network on the Global History of Migration
Sponsored by H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences On-line, Michigan State University and by the International Institute for Social History Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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We hereby wish to inform you about the forthcoming International Congress "Consuming against Capitalism? Co-operatives seen from an InternationalComparative Perspective", Ghent, 16-17 October 2003. For more details, please go to www.amsab.be/co/coop.htm.
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Janet R. Horne. A Social Laboratory for Modern France: The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. xiii + 354 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, index. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-2782-1; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8223-2792-9.
Reviewed by Robert Beck, Université de Tours, France.
Published by H-Mediterranean (April, 2003).
International Conference:
Migrant Labour in Southeast Asia: Needed, Not Wanted
to be held at
Faculty of Economics, Business and Law
The University of New England,
Armidale, Australia
1-3 December, 2003
First Circular and Call for Papers
Invitation
The Conference conveners cordially invite you to participate in an international conference Migrant Labour in Southeast Asia: Needed, Not Wanted, to be held at The University of New England from 1-3 December, 2003.
Conference Theme
Call for Papers
The Chinese Historical Review (ISSN 10043-643X) invites manuscripts of original research, reviews, and research notes concerning all aspects and time periods of Chinese history, China-foreign relations, and the Chinese diaspora. Manuscripts with comparative perspectives on history are also welcome.
Richard Lawton and Robert Lee, eds. Population and Society in Western European Port Cities, c. 1650-1939. Liverpool Studies in European Population, vol. 2. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2002. xvi + 385 pp. Tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $75.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-85323-435-3; $28.95 (paper), ISBN 0-85323-907-X.
We Were All Slaves: African Miners, Culture and Resistance at the Enugu Government Colliery, Nigeria
Carolyn Brown (Carolyn Brown is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Jersey)
Series: Social History of Africa
Series Editors: Allen Isaacman and Jean Allman
Jan T. Gross. Revolution from Abroad: the Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorusssia. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 2002. xxiv + 396 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $44.89 (cloth). ISBN 0-691-09603-1.
Reviewed for H-RUSSIA by Johanna Granville, Hoover Institution, Stanford University (May 2003).
Occupation by a Spoiler State: the Soviet Takeover of Eastern Poland (1939-1941)
