Historia Social
N.37 (2000)

ESTUDIOS

[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:

Please find below the content list for the latest issue of Labour History Australia. If anyone has any enquiries concerning the issue or subscriptions they can contact me.

Greg Patmore,
Editor,
Labour History,
g.patmore@econ.usyd.edu.au

LABOUR HISTORY
A Journal of Labour and Social History
Number 79 * November 2000

We, the anarchists! A study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937 by Stuart Christie.
Paperback, 136 pages, £7.95 (+ postage).
ISBN 1 901172 06 6
Published November 2000
The Meltzer Press; PO Box 35, Hastings; East Sussex TN34 2UX and Jura Media, PO Box N32, Petersham North NSW 2049, Australia
Copyright © The Meltzer Press/Jura Media 2000
Email: meltzer@afmltd.demon.co.uk
Web: www.afmltd.demon.co.uk/meltzer.

Professors James Hanlan of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Robert Weir at Bay Path College are in the process of compiling an encyclopedia of American labor for Greenwood Press. We invite contributors for this venture.

The encyclopedia is designed for public libraries and novices, not labor history scholars. We seek writers who can: