International Conference: "Marxism 2001"

Date: June 21-23, 2001
Sponsor: Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences
Place: Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, southwestern China. China's most ethnically, geographically and bio-diverse province.

Law and the 'Disappearance' of Class in 20th Century America

Socialism and Sexuality Series
IIHS (Amsterdam), EHESS (Paris), IHC-UMR 5605 (Dijon)

Labour Organizations and Sexuality
Friday, 5 October, 2001, Dijon
Preliminary Program

Issue number 25 (2000-2001) of North West Labour History, journal of the North West Labour History Group, has been published after some delay. The articles are as follows:

Citizenship, National Identity, Race, and Diaspora in Contemporary Europe

Call for Papers

Radical History Review invites contributions for a special issue on contemporary Europe, broadly construed to include the (post)colonies of Europe as well as the USSR and its successor states since 1945.

Conference announcement

Friendly Societies Research Group Spring conference in the UK:

Membership involvement: milestone or millstone? How members' involvement affects mutuality past, present and future

'Voices of a Twentieth Century Nation', the biennial Oral History Association of Australia National Conference, will be held in Australia's capital city, Canberra, from August 30 to September 2, 2001.

Michael Perelman, The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. 412 pp. $22,95 (paper), ISBN: 0-8223-2491-1; $64.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8223-2454-7.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Gregory Clark, Department of Economics, University of California-Davis.
Published by EH.NET, March 2001.

On the eve of International Women's Day, 8 March, the International Institute of Social History (IISH) has published on its Web server the first two parts of a Guide to Sources for Women's History in the IISH to highlight the presence of women and women's organizations in the Institute's rich collections. The URL is: www.iisg.nl/~womhist/womarc.html.

Women's History in the IISH

Call for Papers