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

フランス共産党の歴史
Boulouque, Sylvain / Courtois, Stephane, Petit manuel d'histoire du PCF. (Une autre histoire) 184 p. 2023:6 (Atlande, FR) <708-1336>
ISBN 978-2-35030-883-8 paper ¥4,472.- (税込) EUR 19.00

Eiden-Offe, Patrick, The Poetry of Class: Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat. Tr. by J. Blumenfeld. (Historical Materialism Book Series 305) 303 pp. 2023:11 (Brill, NE) <708-1337>
ISBN 978-90-04-68545-1 hard ¥33,662.- (税込) EUR 143.00

In the early 19th century, a new social collective emerged out of impoverished artisans, urban rabble, wandering rural lower classes, bankrupt aristocrats and precarious intellectuals, one that would soon be called the proletariat. But this did not yet exist as a unified, homogeneous class with affiliated political parties. The motley appearance, the dreams and longings of these figures, torn from all economic certainties, found new forms of narration in romantic novellas, reportages, social-statistical studies, and monthly bulletins. But soon enough, these disorderly, violent, nostalgic, errant, and utopian figures were denigrated as reactionary and anarchic by the heads of the labour movement, since they did not fit into their grand linear vision of progress. In this book, Patrick Eiden-Offe tells their story, tracing the making of the proletariat in Voermarz Germany (1815-1848) through the writings of figures like Ludwig Tieck, Moses Hess, Wilhelm Weitling, Georg Weerth, Friedrich Engels, Louise Otto-Peters, Ernst Willkomm, and Georg Buechner, and in so doing, revealing a striking similarity to the disorderly classes of today.

ボルシェヴィズムとは何だったのか？
Lih, Lars T., What Was Bolshevism? (Historical Materialism Book Series 298) 590 pp. 2023:12 (Brill, NE) <708-104>
ISBN 978-90-04-68445-4 hard ¥43,313.- (税込) EUR 184.00 *

How did the Bolsheviks see themselves? What grand narrative gave meaning to their revolutionary aspirations? The leading Western expert on Bolshevism, Lars T. Lih, answers these questions in the first-ever study of the Bolshevik outlook from Lenin to perestroika. Sharply focused case studies allow individual leaders - Lenin, Stalin, Bukharin, Trotsky, Zinoviev - to come alive and speak in their own voices, with surprising results that challenge conventional narratives left and right. What Was Bolshevism? uses novels, plays, literary criticism, photographs, statues, poetry, history textbooks, songs, and film to paint an indispensable self-portrait of Soviet civilization.

市場に関する政治－革命期フランスにおける労働、ジェンダー、市民権
Jarvis, Katie, La politique sur les marches: travail, genre et citoyennete dans la France revolutionnaire. (Histoire) 387 p. 2023:6 (Pr. U. de Rennes, FR) <708-1213>
ISBN 978-2-7535-8970-4 paper ¥6,591.- (税込) EUR 28.00

18世紀における女性と労働の再生
Ledoux, Ellen Malenas, Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth Century. 296 pp. 2023:10 (U. Virginia Pr., US) <708-1216>
ISBN 978-0-8139-5027-3 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8139-5028-0 paper ¥6,360.- (税込) US$ 29.50 *

Motherhood inherently involves labor. The seemingly perennial notion that paid work outside the home and motherhood are incompatible, however, grows out of specific cultural conditions established in Britain and her colonies during the long eighteenth century. With Laboring Mothers, Ellen Malenas Ledoux synthesizes and expands on two feminist dialogues to deliver an innovative transatlantic cultural history of working motherhood. Addressing both actual historical women and fabricated representations of a type, Ledoux demonstrates how contingent ideas about the public sphere and maternity functioned together to create systems of power and privilege among working mothers.Popular culture has long thrown doubt on the idea that women can be both productive and reproductive at the same time. Although the critical task of raising and providing for a family should, in theory, foster solidarity, this has not historically proven the case. Laboring Mothers demonstrates how contemporary associations surrounding economic status, race, and working motherhood have their roots in an antiquated and rigid system of inequality among women that dates back to the Enlightenment.

Cagatay, Selin / Ghit, Alexandra et al. (eds.), Through the Prism of Gender and Work: Women's Labour Struggles in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond, 19th and 20th Centuries. (Studies in Global Social History 51) 550 pp. 2024 (Brill, NE) <708-1238>
ISBN 978-90-04-68246-7 hard ¥35,074.- (税込) EUR 149.00 *

This book examines women's activism in and beyond Central and Eastern Europe and transnationally within and across different historical periods, political regimes, and scales of activism. The authors explore the wide range of activist agendas, repertoires, and forums in which women sought to advocate for their gender and labour interests. Women were engaged in trade unions, women-only organizations, state institutions, and international and intellectual networks, and were active on the shopfloor. Rectifying geopolitical and thematic imbalances in labour and gender history, this volume is a valuable resource for scholars and students of women's activism, social movements, political and intellectual history, and transnationalism. Contributors are: Eloisa Betti, Masha Bratishcheva, Jan A. Burek, Selin Cagatay, Daria Dyakonova, Matyas Erdelyi, Dora Fedeles-Czeferner, Eric Fure-Slocum, Alexandra Ghi?, Olga Gnydiuk, Maren Hachmeister, Veronika Helfert, Natalia Jarska, Marie Lanikova, Ivelina Masheva, Jean-Pierre Liotard-Vogt, Denisa Nestakova, Sophia Polek, Zhanna Popova, Buesra Sati, Masha Shpolberg, Georg Spitaler, Jelena Tesija, Eszter Varsa, Johanna Wolf and Susan Zimmermann.