W. Patrick McCray, Glassmaking in Renaissance Venice: The Fragile Craft. Brookfield, Vermont and Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1999. xii + 240 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography index. $84.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7546-0050-5.
Luca Molà, The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xix + 457 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography index. $48.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-6189-6.
Ronald Grigor Suny, The Soviet Experiment. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. xvii + 540 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references and index. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 0-19-508105-6.
Reviewed for H-RUSSIA by Robert Lewis, Exeter University.
Published by H-RUSSIA, October 2000.
Understanding Twentieth-Century Russia
At the latest update (October 2000) the following sites were added to the WWW Virtual Library: Labour and Business History, bringing the total number to 1,662.
Just published are the first two volumes of a 10 volume edition of papers of Willy Brandt called the Berlin Edition.
The International Institute of Social History presented Mikhail Bakunin's Oeuvres complètes on a CD-ROM containing all known texts written by the Russian anarchist in both the original version and, whenever applicable, a French translation.
David Eltis, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Richardson, and Herbert S. Klein, The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. (User guide, xi + 89 pp.) $195, ISBN: 0-521-62910-1.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Lorena S. Walsh, Department of Historical Research, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Published by EH.NET, October 2000.
The Autumn 2000 issue of the London Socialist Historians Group Newsletter has been published and is now available for downloading from the LSHG web site at www.ch.u-net.com/lshg.
Howell John Harris, Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 456 pp. $44.95. (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-58435-3.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Daniel Jacoby, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program, University of Washington, Bothell.
Published by EH.NET, October 2000.
The Pacific Northwest Labor History Association, the Southwest Labor Studies Association, and the Western Labor Communications Association 2001 Joint Conference
3-6 May 2001 in Portland, Oregon
Call for Papers, Presentations, Exhibits and Performances
The Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project (SERAP) at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce the publication of two new working papers:
