Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

英国労働者階級の幸福
Bronstein, Jamie E., The Happiness of the British Working Class. 296 pp. 2023 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <684-1701>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3049-9 hard ¥20,196.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5036-3384-1 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

For working-class life writers in nineteenth century Britain, happiness was a multifaceted emotion: a concept that could describe experiences of hedonic pleasure, foster and deepen social relationships, drive individuals to self-improvement, and lead them to look back over their lives and evaluate whether they were well-lived. However, not all working-class autobiographers shared the same concepts or valorizations of happiness, as variables such as geography, gender, political affiliation, and social and economic mobility often influenced the way they defined and experienced their emotional lives. The Happiness of the British Working Class employs and analyzes over 350 autobiographies of individuals in England, Scotland, and Ireland to explore the sources of happiness of British working people born before 1870. Drawing from careful examinations of their personal narratives, Jamie L. Bronstein investigates the ways in which working people thought about the good life as seen through their experiences with family and friends, rewarding work, interaction with the natural world, science and creativity, political causes and religious commitments, and physical and economic struggles. Informed by the history of emotions and the philosophical and social-scientific literature on happiness, this book reflects broadly on the industrial-era working-class experience in an era of immense social and economic change.

Sharp, Ingrid / Stibbe, Matthew / Painter, Corinne (eds.), Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914-21: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration. 272 pp. (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <684-1544>
ISBN 978-1-350-11034-2 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

?Luxemburg war nie eine Kolonialmacht“, verkundete 1960 der damalige luxemburgische Aussenminister Eugene Schaus im Parlament. Tatsachlich hat das kleine Binnenland nie eigene Kolonien gehabt. Hinter dieser Fassade war das Grossherzogtum jedoch tief in die kolonialen Projekte seiner europaischen Nachbarn verstrickt. Luxemburger*innen trieben in den Kolonien Handel, missionierten, reisten oder forschten. Auch auf staatlicher Ebene stand Luxemburg nicht ausserhalb des europaischen Kolonialismus, sondern war durch aktive Unterstutzung und Mitarbeit Teil der kolonialen Welt. Dieses Buch ist die erste allgemeine Einfuhrung dieser Art, die sich speziell auf Luxemburg fokussiert. Es fragt nach der Moeglichkeit, dem Inhalt und den Konsequenzen einer luxemburgischen Kolonialgeschichte.

Ross, Pedro, How the Workers' Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution: Reviving Socialism after the Collapse of the Soviet Union. 288 pp. 2022:10 (Monthly Review, US) <684-1249>
ISBN 978-1-58367-979-1 hard ¥19,971.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-58367-978-4 paper ¥6,058.- (税込) US$ 27.00 *

1848年の革命の政治における『共産党宣言』－批判的評価
Ireland, David, The Communist Manifesto in the Revolutionary Politics of 1848: A Critical Evaluation. (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) 284 pp. 2022:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <684-127>
ISBN 978-3-030-99463-1 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book examines why, on the eve of the pamphlet's 175th anniversary, the Communist Manifesto left so faint an imprint on Europe's most revolutionary year of 1848, when it has had such a huge impact on posterity. The Manifesto that year misread bourgeois intentions, put too much faith in the industrial proletariat, too little in peasants, too much emphasis on the German states, and none on England. Marx and Engels preferred in 1848-9 to focus on the middle-class Neue Rheinische Zeitung, declining to galvanise working-class groups whose leadership they had actively sought. They neglected to return swiftly to the German states in their crucial 1848 'March days'. The Manifesto's programme barely overlapped with contemporary campaigners or comparative pamphleteers, or the replacement Demands of the Communist Party in Germany. The book considers the consequences of Marx opting to write the Manifesto alone in January 1848. It also questions the source and significance of the pamphlet's most memorialised phrase, 'the spectre of Communism', whether it was written for the 'working men of all countries' addressed in its finale, and whether Marx and Engels regarded the Manifesto as highly in 1848, as they undoubtedly did in later life.

Sheehan, Brett / Yeh, Wen-hsin (eds.), Living and Working in Wartime China. 277 pp. 2022:7 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <684-1108>
ISBN 978-0-8248-8882-4 hard ¥15,259.- (税込) US$ 68.00 *

Covering the years of Japanese invasion during World War II from 1937 to 1945, this essay collection recounts Chinese experiences of living and working under conditions of war. Each of the regimes that ruled a divided China-occupation governments, Chinese Nationalists, and Chinese Communists-demanded and glorified the full commitment of the people and their resources in the prosecution of war. Through stories of both everyday people and mid-level technocrats charged with carrying out the war, this book brings to light the enormous gap between the leadership's demands and the reality of everyday life. Eight long years of war exposed the unrealistic nature of elite demands for unreserved commitment. As the political leaders faced numerous obstacles in material mobilization and retreated to rhetoric of spiritual resistance, the Chinese populace resorted to localized strategies ranging from stoic adaptation to cynical profiteering, articulated variously with touches of humor and tragedy. These localized strategies are examined through stories of people at varying classes and levels of involvement in living, working, and trying to work through the war under the different regimes. In less than a decade, millions of Chinese were subjects of disciplinary regimes that dictated the celebration of holidays, the films available for viewing, the stories told in tea houses, and the restrictions governing the daily operations and participants of businesses-thus impacting the people of China for years to come. This volume looks at the narratives of those affected by the war and regimes to understand perspectives of both sides of the war and its total outcomes. Living and Working in Wartime China depicts the brutal micromanaging of ordinary lives, devoid of compelling national purposes, that both undercut the regimes' relationships with their people and helped establish the managerial infrastructure of authoritarian regimes in subsequent postwar years.