Concerned users of Hoover Library:
From the scores of email messages I received over the last few days, I gather there have been some extraordinarily misinformed messages about the future of the Hoover Library and Archives posted on various bulletin boards. Stanford has no plans to close Hoover Library or to reduce the funding for collections of either archival or non-archival materials.
The current situation:
Marco H. D. van Leeuwen, The Logic of Charity: Amsterdam, 1800-1850. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xv + 242 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-312-22853-8.
Reviewed for EH.NET by George R. Boyer, Department of Labor Economics, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.
Published by EH.NET, December 2000.
The book presentation at the Pump House, Manchester, December 10, has been postponed. Yet the book is available:
Manchester, Jews, Labour and the Left
edited by Christine Collette and Stephen Bird
Contents:
Historia Social
N.37 (2000)
[Note of the Editor of H-German: H-German received this alarming post about two weeks ago. Before sending it out to our subscribers, we worked to verify its accuracy. According to Agnes Peterson of Stanford, the conditions described below will prevail, unless there is a substantial protest.]
To the readers of H-German:
Gerald M. Easter, Reconstructing the State: Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. New York and Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiii + 221 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography and index. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-66085-8.
Reviewed for H-RUSSIA by Nellie H. Ohr, McLean, Virginia.
Published by H-RUSSIA, November 2000.
Gordon Hak, Turning Trees into Dollars: The British Columbia Coastal Lumber Industry, 1858-1913. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. ix + 239 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8020-4745-9; $22.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-8020-8305-6.
Reviewed for EH.NET by William Marr, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Published by EH.NET, November 2000.
Call for Papers
International Labor and Working-Class History (ILWCH), a semiannual journal published by Cambridge University Press, is currently soliciting papers for an upcoming special issue on "Globalism: The Regional Experience." A more detailed description of the proposed theme follows.
Les Syndicalismes en Europe, 19e-20e siècles
Université de Bourgogne, Dijon 18-20 décembre 2000
Colloque international organisé par l'IHC et l'IHS-CGT
(traduction simultanée français - anglais)
Lundi 18 décembre 2000
The International Institute of Social History has published an overview of its collections from Egypt, Sudan, Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon at www.iisg.nl/arab/.
In addition, lists and inventories of the following collections are available in PDF-format:
