Elizabeth Isichei. Voices of the Poor in Africa: Moral Economy and the Popular Imagination. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, vol. 12. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2002. x + 287 pp. Drawings, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-158046-107-7.

Reviewed for H-Africa by John Philips, Department of International Society, Hirosaki University, Japan. Published by H-Africa (May 2003).

CALL FOR PAPERS

Under the collective rubric Rethinking Social Democracy, a series of three interdisciplinary and comparative conferences is being organised to explore the past histories, present opportunities and future prospects of European social democracy.

Current attempts to bring the State Social-Political Library (Gosudarstvennaia Obshchestvenno-Politicheskaia Biblioteka, GOPB) in Moscow under control of the Moscow State Social University elicited the following letter from the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. Karin Englund, IALHI's General Secretary, wrote a note in support of it.

To the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation,
Mikhail Efimovich Shvydkoj

Dear Mikhail Efimovich:

Routledge, one of the leading international publishers of Arts, Humanities, and Social Science journals, invites applications for the Editorship of its key history journal, Labor History.

Bertrand Patenaude, Big Show in Bololand. The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. 748 pp. Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8-47-4493-9; $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8047-4467-X.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Nellie Hauke Ohr. June 2003.

The Doughboy and the Commissar, or, Tales from the Famine Front

FONDAZIONE TURATI - ASSOCIAZIONE PERTINI
INFORMAZIONI EDITORIALI

Giacomo Matteotti
Scritti giuridici
a cura di Stefano Caretti
Nistri-Lischi, Pisa, 2003
due volumi
Euro 45,00

I comunisti e la società italiana
di Andrea Ragusa
Piero Lacaita Editore
Manduria-Roma-Bari 2003, euro 15,00

Print ISSN 1474-7731
Online ISSN 1474-774X

Call for Papers

Globalizations is a new journal, edited by Barry Gills, and supported by the Globalization Research Network. With an editorial board consisting of active globalization scholars, the journal will seek to publish the best work exploring new meanings of globalization, bringing fresh ideas to the concept and contributing to debates that shape the future.

Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, to be published by Duke University Press beginning in January, 2004.

The TUC Library Collections at London Metropolitan University launch the second phase of their website today -- the full original manuscript of the novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.