Mary Zimmerman, Jacquelyn Litt and Christine Bose, eds. Global Dimensions of Gender and Carework. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xi + 400 pp. Notes, references, index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8047-5323-7; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8047-5324-5.
Reviewed by: Elizabeth Rose, Department of History, Central Connecticut State University.
Published by: H-Childhood (September, 2006)
The annual Midwest Labor and Working Class History (MLWCH) colloquium will be held April 6-7, 2007, on the campus of the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Graduate students from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Iowa rotate in organizing the colloquium. This event is an annual gathering of scholars in the fields of labor, working class, and social history, and social scientists from the Midwest.
The Archiv der sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung presents the latest issue of its electronic newsletter at [url]http://www.fes.de/archiv/newsletter/main/nl.set.htm[/url]
Michael Uhl. Mythos Spanien: Das Erbe der Internationalen Brigaden in der DDR. Bonn: J.H.W. Dietz, 2004. 556 pp. Appendix, maps, bibliography. EUR 29.80 (cloth), ISBN 3-8012-5031-8.
Reviewed by: Ana Monica Fonseca, Portuguese Institute for International Relations, New University Lisbon.
Published by: H-German (September, 2006)
La Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero recibe la Medalla de Honor de la Emigración
El ministro de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales, Jesús Caldera, ha entregado las condecoraciones coincidiendo con el Día Internacional del Migrante. Las Medallas de Honor de la Emigración premian la labor de personas e instituciones a favor de los emigrantes Entre los 15 galardonados destacan dos fundaciones, cuatro medios de comunicación y el actor Carlos Iglesias
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In 2006 IALHI welcomed eight new members:
Association La Fraternelle (Saint-Claude, France)
Society for the preservation of the old co-operative's archives
E-mail: [mailto]lafraternelle3@wanadoo.fr[/mailto]
Fondation Jean Jaurès (Paris, France)
French Socialist Party archives
[url]http://www.jean-jaures.org[/url]
8th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society
University of Plymouth, UK, July 12-14, 2007.
The 8th international conference of the Utopian Studies Society will be held at the University of Plymouth, July 12th to 14th , 2007. The conference will examine a range of topics related to utopia and utopianisms, its historical articulation and contemporary realisation. Keynote speakers are Dr Esther Leslie (Birkbeck) and Lalit Kishor Bhati (Auroville, India).
The Cold War International History Project is pleased to announce the publication of Working Paper No. 54, Evolution and Revolution: Sino-Hungarian Relations and the 1956 Revolution, by Péter Vámos, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Schulz, Günther (Hrsg.): Geschichte der Sozialpolitik in Deutschland seit 1945. Bd. 3: Bundesrepublik 1949-1957. Bewältigung der Kriegsfolgen, Rückkehr zur sozialpolitischen Normalität. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag 2006. ISBN 3-7890-7317-2; 1.151 S. + 1 CD-ROM; EUR 169,00.
Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Wolfgang Ayaß, Universität Kassel
E-Mail: [mailto]ayass@uni-kassel.de[/mailto]
