Craig Phelan, Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. 304 pp. $65 (cloth), ISBN: 0-313-30948-5.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Robert E. Weir, Department of Liberal Studies, Bay Path College, Longmeadow, MA.
Published by EH.Net, June 2000.
The University of North London has been awarded an £80,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to improve and extend access to British Trade Union publications in the TUC Library Collections held at the University.
The grant will enable the University to:
Charles DeBenedetti Prize in Peace History
Prize Date: 2001-02-01
Richard Grassby, The Idea of Capitalism before the Industrial Revolution. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. ix + 145 pp. $50.00 (cloth), $14.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-847-69362-1 (cloth), 0-8476-9633-2 (paper).
Reviewed for EH.NET by Richard F. Teichgraeber III, Murphy Institute of Political Economy and Department of History, Tulane University.
Published by EH.Net, June 2000.
The complete text of Kenneth Rexroth’s Communalism: From its Origins to the Twentieth Century is now online at
Elena Zubkova, Russia after the War: Hopes, Illusions, and Disappointments, 1945-1957. Trans. Hugh Ragsdale. "The New Russian History" series. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. x + 239 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $65.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7656-0227-X; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7656-0228-8.
Reviewed by Andrew Day, New York City.
Published by H-Russia (June, 2000).
Barbara Evans Clements, Bolshevik Women. New York and Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv + 338 pp. Illustrations, tables, footnotes, appendix, select bibliography and index. $65.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-45403-4; $25.95 (paper), 0-521-59920-2.
Reviewed by Mark Baker, Harvard University.
Published by H-Russia (June, 2000).
A Social History of Bolshevik Women
Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii, Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 198 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-300-08106-5.
Reviewed by Robert Argenbright, Earth Sciences Department, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Published by H-Russia (June, 2000).
Meanings of the Revolution
According to its latest Bulletin (no 23, 2000) the Centre de Recherches d'Histoire des Mouvements sociaux et du Syndicalisme (CRHMSS), a research centre at the University of Paris-1, is going to change its name to Centre d'Histoire sociale du XXe Siècle. More change is expected as the CNRS, the French organization for advanced research, is renewing its various programs.
The Bulletin also contains a list of the CRHMSS's recent publications:
Herbert Applebaum, The American Work Ethic and the Changing Work Force: An Historical Perspective. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1998. xvii + 228 pp. Bibliographical References, Index. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-313-30677-x.
Reviewed by John Enyeart, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Published by H-PCAACA (May, 2000).
