Historical Materialism

From: Sebastian Budgen Books in German for which Historical Materialism seeks reviews in English
May 2005

Historical Materialism seeks reviewers for the following books in German. Reviews should be submitted in English. Our policy is to publish substantial review articles, usually ranging between 3,000 and 6,000 words, and it is important that books should be discussed in terms of their relevance to Marxist theory. The Guidelines document for HM reviewers will be sent on request.

Questions d'histoire sociale

Le Centre d'animation et de recherche en histoire ouvrière et populaire (Carhop) publie Questions d'histoire sociale.

Apporter un éclairage historique à de nombreuses questions d'actualité qui font et qui ont fait, aujourd'hui comme hier, l'objet de débats passionnés : tel a été l'objectif du Carhop en rédigeant ces Questions d'histoire sociale.

Port Economics

From: Tapio Bergholm

Making Global and Local Connections: Historical Perspectives on Port Economics

Call for Papers for a port history session of the XIV International Economic History Congress IEHC, Helsinky, Finland, 21-25 August 2006 and a pre-conference to be held in Kotka (Finland), 18-20 August 2006

Files of the Communist Party of Japan

Free online inventory in Comintern online

IDC Publishers is pleased to announce that a free online inventory (in English and Russian) is available for the collection Files of the Communist Party of Japan. This finding aid is part of Comintern online, that comprises an inventory to the complete Comintern Archives of 55,000,000 pages.

Access to the Comintern online inventory is free after registering at www.comintern-online.com.

Willemijn Lindhout ()
IDC Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Ports, Borders, and Labor

From: Peter Kardas,

Ports, Borders, and Labor in the Pacific Northwest
The 38th Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association
Co-Sponsored by the Labor Center at The Evergreen State College
June 2 - 4, 2006
Location: Olympia (WA) Campus, The Evergreen State College

We invite your ideas and participation in planning a conference which will bring together union and community activists and scholars. Workshops, Panels, & Cultural Presentations will focus on (among other things):

Russian Studies

Call for Applications

International Centre for Russian Studies - Summer History Workshop, 22-24 June 2005, Moscow(www.icrs.ru/news/)

Interdisciplinary Centre for Studies in History, Economy and Society (Moscow, Russia)
Davis Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA)
International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (Moscow, Russia)
State Socio-Political Library (Moscow, Russia)

Masters, Servants, and Magistrates

H-Net Book Review
Published by [MAILTO]H-Albion@h-net.msu.edu[/MAILTO] (April 2005)

Douglas Hay and Paul Craven (eds.), Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955. Studies in Legal History Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xi + 592 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2877-7.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Phil Withington, Department of History, University of Aberdeen

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