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:
Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre
Media Release
21 November 2000
ANU Thumbs Its Nose at Senate and Australian People As It Proceeds with Destruction of Archives
Staff of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre were yesterday informed that the ANU Executive had approved the cuts to the Archives proposed by University Librarian Colin Steele. Two of the four permanent staff will lose their jobs.
Call for papers
Labor/working-class history
SSHA, Social Science History Association, Chicago (Nov 15-18, 2001)
Call for Papers Deadline: 2001-01-20
From: H-NET Announcements Editor
The Labor network of the Social Science History Association invites panel or paper submissions for the 2001 annual conference (November 15-18, Chicago). Interdisciplinary and nonwestern work related to labor history is especially encouraged.
