Jamie L. Bronstein, Land Reform and Working Class Experience in Britain and the United States 1800-1862. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1999. x + 372 pp. Index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8047-3451-8.
Reviewed by Howard B. Rock, Florida International University.
Published by H-SHEAR (April, 2000).
The Encyclopedia of Colonialism (EoC)--a 1,200-page, three-volume, illustrated reference work--is soliciting entry writers. Professor Melvin E. Page is serving as General Editor of the EoC, which is being produced by East River Books and will be published by ABC-CLIO in 2001.
Juergen Kocka, Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society: Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in Modern Germany. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999. xvii + 325 pp. Index. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-57181-158-3.
Reviewed by Roland Spickermann, Assistant Professor of History, University of Detroit Mercy.
Published by H-W-Civ (May, 2000).
ViVa Women's History Database now available on the Web
ViVa is a current bibliography of articles about women's and gender history. Articles published in English, French, German and Dutch are selected from more than hundred European, American and Indian journals. The ViVa database now contains bibliographic records describing about 4700 articles published between 1975 and 2000 in 107 historical and women's studies journals.
Call for Articles for Edited Volume
Gender and '68 in Comparative Perspective
Abstract and cv: September 1, 2000
Article Draft: June 15, 2001
In recent decades labor and business historians have begun to transform how we view and study the evolution of the modern corporation. We are editing a collection of essays drawing on the insights of new scholarship to illuminate the history of the General Electric Corporation (GE), a corporation that has had a unique and profound impact on our society, and, indeed, the world.
Domestic Service and Mobility: Labour, Livelihoods and Lifestyles
Trivandrum, India, 26–28 October 2000
Call for Papers
The Socialist Party in Britain is holding a summer school on the "Socialism of William Morris" inBirmingham on 7th, 8th and 9th July.
Details from 11 Dagger Lane, West Bromwich, UK.
Colin B.Skelly C.B.Skelly@rhbnc.ac.uk
Posted: 22 May 2000
France 1995: Turning Point or Tremor?
Conference , 9-10 June 2000, French Institute, London
Working-Class Households, Survival Strategies, and Social Movements: Asian Perspectives
International Workshop, Taipeh, 22-24 March 2001
Call for Papers
