Jonathan A. Grant. Big Business in Russia: The Putilov Company in Late Imperial Russia, 1868-1917. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. viii + 203 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8229-4110-4.
Reviewed for H-Russia by Clayton Black, Department of History, Washington College. Published by H-Russia (June 2003).
Comrades and Cousins: Globalization, Workers and Labour Movements in Britain, the USA and Australia from the 1880s to 1914, by Neville Kirk
The major aim of this book of is both to fill gaps in and further develop the field of cross-national comparative labour history.
The focus rests upon organised labour's attitudes and practices towards class, race and politics in Britain, Australia and the USA during the era of 'new imperialism', 1880s-1914. The book teases out similarities and differences among nations.
Monica Chojnacka. Working Women of Early Modern Venice. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 118th series, vol. 3. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xxii + 188 pp. Illustrations, tables, map, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-6485-2.
Reviewed for H-Italy by Carole Collier Frick, Department of Historical Studies, Southern Illinois University. Published by H-Italy (June 2003).
Lois Kathryn Herr. Women, Power, and AT&T: Winning Rights in the Workplace. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003. xvii + 200 pp. Illustrations, tables, preface, notes, index. $47.50 (cloth),ISBN 1-55553-537-2; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 1-55553-536-4.
Reviewed for H-Women by Thomas C. Jepsen, National Coalition of Independent Scholars. Published by H-Women (May 2003).
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
