Empires and Resistance: the Rise and Fall of Great Powers

Call for Papers

A conference to be held on Saturday 8th May 2004, at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU.

We are currently witnessing an expansion of US military power on a scale not seen since the Vietnam war - but as historians we know that Empires fall as well as rise.

In this context, the London Socialist Historians Group is organising a conference to discuss the historical issues raised.

The Labour History Archive and Study Centre holds the archives of the Labour Party and the British Communist Party as well as collections that document many aspects of the history of radical political struggle in the UK since the mid-nineteenth century.

As part of a programme of activities designed to promote the study of the collections to new audiences we are organising a day conference called Culture in Radical Politics.

City, Industry, and Environment in Transatlantic Perspective
Philadelphia, April 16-17, 2004

Call for Papers

The Chemical Heritage Foundation invites proposals for papers on urban environmental history in North America, the British Isles, continental Europe, Latin America and other regions constituting the Atlantic world.

Announcement of Labor History Authors' Bill of Rights, Royalty Fund and Digitisation Project

The Politics of Labour in Asia
CLARA Seminar (Changing Labour Relations in Asia)

Friday, 7 November 2003
09.30-18.00
International Institute of Social History
Cruquiusweg 31, Amsterdam

Speakers:

Intermediary Structures and Democracy: An Historical Approach
Leuven / Brussel, 28-29 November 2003

For more details, please go to www.odis.be.

Elizabeth Faue. Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. x + 249 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, photographs, index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8014-3461-0.

Reviewed by Linda S. Hudson, Department of History, East Texas Baptist University.
Published by H-Amstdy (August, 2003)

Mong Girls Who Toil

To date we have received many interesting paper proposals for the oncoming Rethinking Social Democracy conferences. Due to a large level of interest we have encountered despite summer vacations we have decided to extend a deadline to 10th November 2003 and hope to hear from many more candidates.

The original call for papers may be found at www.ialhi.org/news/i0307_3.php.

Any queries can be forwarded to this address:

William J. Billingsley. Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. vii + 308 pp. Tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8203-2460-4.

Reviewed by Joy Ann Williamson, School of Education, Stanford University.
Published by H-Education (August, 2003)

Civil Rights, Communism, and the Fight for Institutional Control

David McKnight. Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War: The Conspiratorial Heritage. Studies in Intelligence Series. London: Frank Cass, 2002. xiv + 226 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $57.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-7146-5163-X.

Reviewed by Frederick Wettering, Social Sciences Department, Lake-Sumter Community College.
Published by H-Diplo (August, 2003).

Communist Parties and Soviet Espionage