Industrious women and children of the world?

Call for papers - World Economic History Congress Utrecht, 3-7 August 2009

Proposed session - Industrious women and children of the world? Jan de Vries' 'industrious revolution' as a conceptual tool for researching women's and children's work in an international perspective

Session organizers:

Jane Humphries (Oxford University, All Souls College)

Ariadne Schmidt (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (Leiden University, History Department)

Soviet and Post Soviet History

Steindorff, Ludwig; Schulz, Günther; unter Mitarbeit von Heeke, Matthias; Röttjer, Julia; Savin, Andrej (Hrsg.): Partei und Kirchen im frühen Sowjetstaat. Die Protokolle der Antireligiösen Kommission beim Zentralkomitee der Russischen Kommunistischen Partei (Bol'seviki) 1922-1929 (= Geschichte: Forschung und Wissenschaft 11). Münster: LIT Verlag 2006. ISBN 3-825-88604-2; brosch.; 458 S.; EUR 39,90.

Two from the Turati

La Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati" comunica:

Sono usciti per la collana Società e Cultura i volumi:

Dino Mengozzi
Garibaldi taumaturgo
Relique laiche e politica nell'Ottocento Piero Lacaita Editore
Collana Società e Cultura
pp. 251
Euro 18,00

Workers' Struggles in the Arab World

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit abstracts on 'Workers' Struggles and Nationalist Movements in the Arab World, 1900-present' by 1 September 2008.

We are directing a workshop on this theme at the Tenth Mediterranean Research Meeting which will take place near Florence (Italy) on 25 -28 March 2009.

You will find the abstract below:

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