Sources of Radicalism

Seminar announcements for Sources of Radicalism

The programme is as follows:

Thursday, November 7th, 2002
Nigel Fountain: Women in the First and Second World Wars: An Oral History based on the Imperial War Museum Archive

Thursday, December 5th, 2002
Tariq Ali: History is Fiction – Fiction is History (Reading from novels on Islam)

The above seminars will take place at the Britons Protection Pub, 50, Gt. Bridgwater Street, Manchester 1

American Labour Markets

Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets during Industrialization. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 208 pp. $55 (hardback), ISBN: 0-521-80780-8; $20 (paperback), ISBN: 0-521-00287-7.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Warren C. Whatley, Department of Economics, University of Michigan.

Historical Occupations

Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas and Andrew Miles, HISCO: Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2002. 441 pp. $79.50 (cloth), ISBN: 90-5867-196-8.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Hamish James, Collections Manager, History Data Service, University of Essex.

Sovietization of the Baltic States

The Sovietization of the Baltic States 1940-56
International Workshop
9-11 May 2003
Haapsalu, Estoniap

Call for Papers

After the occupation and annexation of the Baltic States in 1940 there started a long lasting process of sovietization until the regaining of independence in 1991. The goal of the workshop is to bring together scholars from the Baltic States, the West and Russia to discuss different aspects of the sovietization. The papers will be published later. Languages of the workshop are English and German.

Five sessions are planned: