Occasio Digital Social History Archive: The Internet archive of the International Institute of Social History (IISH)

Occasio is an archive of newsgroup messages on social, political and ecological issues distributed on the internet.

The annual report of the Modern Records Centre for 2002/3 is now available on our website:

modernrecords.warwick.ac.uk/2002-03.shtml

All feedback welcome.

Mrs Christine Woodland
Archivist, Modern Records Centre
University Library
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
tel. (024) 7652 4219
email c.woodland@warwick.ac.uk
modernrecords.warwick.ac.uk

Verene A. Shepherd, ed. Slavery without Sugar: Diversity in Caribbean Economy and Society since the 17th Century. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. x + 296 pp. Tables, notes, index. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8130-2552-4.

Reviewed for H-LatAm by William Van Norman, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (October 2003)

Breaking the Sugar Mold

The 40th International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) takes place at Linz/Austria, September 16-19, 2004. Themes are:

From: Lewis Siegelbaum [siegelba@msu.edu]
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 9:26 AM
Subject: Call for papers

Borders of Socialism: The Private Sphere in the Soviet Union

Announcing H-Slavery: H-Net Network on the History of Slavery
Sponsored by H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences Online and The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University

About H-Slavery

H-Slavery seeks to promote interaction and exchange among scholars engaged in research on slavery, the slave trade, abolition, and emancipation. It is dedicated to the dissemination of information about the history of slavery and antislavery in all time periods and parts of the world.

Three German titles that might be of interest to labour historians were recently reviewed on H-Net discussion lists:

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Hedwig Schmidt-Herold:
Beate Althammer. Herrschaft, Fürsorge, Protest. Eliten und Unterschichten in den Textilgewerbestädten Aachen und Barcelona 1830-1870. Bonn: Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin, 2002. 660 S. EUR 66, ISBN 3-8012-4125-4.
www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=131831070405446

Herewith a reminder that the 1905 revolution will be the subject of the XXX Annual Conference of the Study Group on the Russian Revolution, scheduled for 3-5 January at Nottingham, UK.

Amira El-Azhary Sonbol. Women of Jordan: Islam, Labor and the Law. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003. i + 300 pp. Index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8156-2964-8; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8156-2985-0.

Reviewed for H-Levant by Sally K. Gallagher, Department of Sociology, Oregon State University
Published by H-Levant@h-net.msu.edu (October 2003)

The Difference between What Is Legal and What Is Real

Theory as History
Ernest Mandel's historical analysis of world capitalism

Conference at the International Institute of Social History
Amsterdam, November 10-11, 2003
For participants and papers see the programme
For more information contact Jan-Willem Stutje ([MAILTO]jst@iisg.nl[/MAILTO])