New book announcement: Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917 by Paul Michel Taillon

The annual international Chartism Conference is organised by the Society of Labour History, the Chartist Study Group and the South Wales Centre for History and Interdisciplinary Research (SWCHIR). It will be held at the Sorbonne, Paris, 2-4 July 2010.

Speakers include:

The Kate Sharpley Library are pleased to announce our latest publication:
Anarchist International Action Against Francoism From Genoa 1949 to The First Of May Group by Antonio Téllez Solà, translated by Paul Sharkey

From the end of the Spanish Civil War, the anarchist movement fought to undermine the Francoist dictatorship. Solidarity actions in Western Europe aimed to isolate the regime, and bring pressure to bear in defence of militants inside Spain. Determined to avoid casualties, their campaign of armed protests saved many activists from the death penalty.

Class, Social Movements and the New Politics
Thirty-Second Annual North American Labor History Conference
Wayne State University, October 21-23, 2010.

The Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference invites proposals for sessions and papers on "Class, Social Movements and the New Politics" for our thirty-second annual meeting.

Left History is currently seeking submissions from new and established scholars for a special theme issue on the emerging field of Active History. Working in collaboration with the editors of ActiveHistory.ca and drawing on the discussions that were initiated at the Active History: History for the Future Conference held at Glendon College in September 2008, Left History is looking for original articles, theoretical pieces, document analyses, and reviews that question and challenge the public responsibility of the historian.

CFP: Social and Economic Restructuring: Midwest Labor and Working Class History Colloquium, 2010

Inaugural Issue: Economic History of Developing Regions

Dear Economic Historian,

The South African Economic History Society is the largest Economic History society on the African continent. The society is proud to introduce our new journal - Economic History of Developing Regions, formerly the South African Journal of Economic History - now published by Taylor & Francis. The inaugural edition of the journal is due June 2010, and we are now actively soliciting submissions for this and future issues.

Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel
(Hardback - 1 Jan 2010)
By Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
ISBN 9781845401931
Imprint Academic

It can be purchased with a discount via the publisher's website or otherwise from most alternative online booksellers.

IISH News Service March 1, 2010
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New items on the IISH website in February 2010:

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/acquisitions2009.php[/url]
A selection of recent acquisitions

Francis King. The Narodniks in the Russian Revolution. Socialist History Occasional Pamphlet Series. London Socialist History Society, 2007. Illustrations. 114 pp. No price listed (paper), ISBN 978-0-9555138-2-4.

Sarah Badcock. Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2007. 280 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-87623-0.

Reviewed by Lutz Haefner
Published on H-HistGeog (June, 2009)
Commissioned by Eva M. Stolberg