International Conference on Slavery, Unfree Labour & Revolt in Asia and the Indian Ocean Region
Avignon, 17-19 May 2001
Call for Papers
An international conference on Slavery, Unfree Labour and Revolt in Asia and the Indian Ocean Region will take place in Avignon from 17-19 May 2001. It will examine protest against slavery and other forms of unfree labour in Asia and the Indian Ocean region. Themes include:
Pour bien commencer le nouveau millénaire
La revue Itinéraire vient d'éditer un agenda pour l'année 2001. Couverture quadri, 130 pages intérieures en 2 couleurs -- afin de ne pas oublier ses rendez-vous et les dates importantes de l'histoire de l'anarchie.
The International Institute of Social History is offering four presentations of parts of its collections:
Mark Solomon, The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1998. viii + 403 pp. Introduction, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-57806-095-8.
Reviewed for H-POL by James G. Ryan, Department of General Academics, Texas A&M University at Galveston.
Published by H-POL, October 2000.
One Group's Liberation; Everybody's Freedom
Mark M. Smith, Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South. New Studies in Economic and Social History. Cambridge, England and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii + 117 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-57158-8.
Reviewed for H-SOUTH by Eric Tscheschlok, Department of History, Auburn University.
Published by H-SOUTH, October 2000.
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.
