Capital & Class 87 Autumn 2005: Miners' Strike Special Issue
Contents
Introduction
'The past we inherit, the future we build'
Anne Suddick
In the preface to this special edition, Anne Suddick discusses the issues that came out of the women's forum at last year's Miners' Strike Twenty Years On: Challenges and Changes conference, which was attended by women activists from the Durham area, and by national officials from Women Against Pit Closures.
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International Colloquium, Ghent, 2 December 2005
International Colloquium on trinity of Labour, Culture and the LabourMovement from a historical viewpoint.
Leo Lucassen, The Immigrant Threat. The integration of old and new migrants in Western Europe since 1850. University of Illinois Press 2005.
This book is the first volume of the new series Studies of World Migrations, edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Leslie Page Moch.
Call for Papers for a proposed edited collection of essays on: Anarchism and Utopianism
We extend this call for papers to authors from all disciplines interested in exploring the relationship between anarchism and utopianism.
From: London Socialist Historians Group,
The Summer 2005 issue of the London Socialist Historians Group Newsletter has been published and can be downloaded from the LSHG web site.
It contains articles by Louis Raw discussing her new research on the 1888 Bryant & May strike, by Nik Howerd on the origins of Japanese imperialism, and by Pete Glatter on the 1905 centenary issue of Revolutionary History, together with a review by Neil Rogall of Ian Birchall's Sarte Against Stalinism.
From: Tapio Bergholm,
Making Global and Local Connections: Historical Perspectives on Port Economics
Call for Papers for a port history session of the XIV International Economic History Congress IEHC, Helsinki, Finland, 21-25 August 2006 and an attached-conference to be held in Kotka, Finland, 18-20 August 2006.
Henri Locard. Pol Pot's Little Red Book: The Sayings of Angkar. Foreword by David Chandler. Chang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2005. xvi +336 pp. Index. $18.95 (paper), ISBN 9-7495-7556-3.
Reviewed by: Jason A. Edwards, Department of Communications, Georgia State University.
Published by: H-Genocide (August, 2005)
The Constitutive Discourse of the Khmer Rouge
Margaret M. Chin. Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. viii + 197 pp. Map, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-231-13308-1.
Reviewed by: Robert E. Bionaz, Department of History, Philosophy, and Political Science, Chicago State University.
Published by: H-Urban (July, 2005)
Bernd Eisenfeld, Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk and Ehrhart Neubert. Die verdrängte Revolution: Der Platz des 17. Juni 1953 in der deutschen Geschichte. Wissenschaftliche Reihe des Bundesbeauftragten für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Bremen: Temmen, 2004. 847 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. EUR 29.90 (cloth), ISBN 3-8610-8387-6.
Norman LaPorte, The German Communist Party in Saxony, 1924-1933. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. x + 399 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography. $53.97 (paper), ISBN 0-8204-5857-0.
Reviewed by: Sara A. Sewell, History Department, Virginia Wesleyan College.
Published by: H-German (June, 2005)
Forging a New Historiography in the Study of German Communism
