Shani D'Cruze, ed. Everyday Violence in Britain 1850-1950: Class and Gender. Harlow, London and New York: Longman, 2000. xii + 233 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $24.00 (paper), ISBN 0-582-41907-7.
Reviewed for H-Albion by Lynn Abrams, Department of History, Glasgow University. February 2002.
Intolerable Acts: Men, Women and Violence in Everyday Life
Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xi + 374 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-503835-5.
Reviewed for H-Labor by Jennifer Mittelstadt, Department of History, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. March, 2002.
Gender Roles, Gendered Rights
Edward C. Lorenz, Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001. x + 318 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-268-02550-09; $27.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-268-02551-7.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Mark Perlman, Department of Economics, Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh.
We are pleased to announce that ViVa now includes historical citations on women in African history.
New website of the history journals Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung (Yearbook for historical Studies on Communism) and The International Newsletter of Communist Studies, published by Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin.
An editorial homepage of both journals has recently been published in the Internet containing some basic information and links. You may have a look at:
Call for Papers
The Information Revolution is considered by many to be an epochal shift in contemporary global economic, social, political and cultural history, comparable with the previous major shift of the Industrial Revolution. Scholars continue to explore and analyze the unparalleled rapid development of information and communication network technologies – most recently that of the Internet and World Wide Web.
The Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati" (Florence, Italy) would like to inform about some of the latest volumes published in the Series Società e Cultura (Lacaita Publishing House):
In the series Strumenti e Fonti (Lacaita Publishing House) the following volumes:
Over the past few years the International Institute of Social History has digitized part of the finding aids to its archival collections. Over 400 of them are now online, in HTML or SGML format, or both. They cover the collections of Wolfgang Abendroth, Friedrich and Kathia Adler, Fritz Brupbacher, the Bureau Socialiste International, the Communist Parties of Bangladesh and Egypt, Fedor Dan, the European Trade Union Confederation, Jeanne Humbert, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the Labour and Socialist International, G.P.
Announcing H-Utopia
H-Net List on utopian Studies
Sponsored by H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences On-line, Michigan State University
About H-Utopia
Kenneth Morgan, Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. x + 120 pp. $11.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-521-58814-6; $39.95 (hardback), ISBN: 0-521-58213-X.
Reviewed for EH.NET by David Eltis, Department of History, Queen's University.
Published by EH.NET, October 2001.
