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

農業とILO　1920～50年代
Ribi Forclaz, Amalia, Cultivating Fields of Progress: Agriculture and the International Labour Organization, 1920s-1950s. 224 pp. 2025:3 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <733-321>
ISBN 978-0-19-284989-2 hard ¥23,931.- (税込) GB￡ 84.00

After the First World War, the improvement of working and living conditions in agriculture became an international issue for the first time. Led by the International Labour Organization and related organizations, as well as overlapping expert networks, agrarian interest groups, trade unionists, and farmer representatives, the immediate interwar and post-war years were a fertile time for international debates, knowledge production, and policy-making. Cultivating Fields of Progress traces the thematic, temporal, and geographical scope of these debates for the first time, from the plight of landless farmworkers in Europe in the early 1920s to the conditions of plantation workers in the 1950s. By using the archives of international organizations, the book considers how and to what ends questions of rural poverty and problematic labour conditions both in Europe and overseas made their way to the world stage, against a backdrop of broader discourses on social progress, decolonizaton, and economic development. Bringing the tools of social history to the study of economic and political history allows for a better understanding of the international development and circulation of ideas and theories of agriculture, as well as broader insights into the nature of power, policy, and knowledge production across a period of global change.

Ghit, Alexandra, Welfare Work without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest. (Work in Global and Historical Perspective) 230 S. 2025:4 (de Gruyter, GW) <733-356>
ISBN 978-3-11-113648-6 hard ¥11,757.- (税込) EUR 49.95

Lemmen, Sarah (ed.), Traversing the Political Divide: Cross-border Workers between Eastern, Western and Southern Europe. (Rethinking the Cold War) 300 pp. 2025:9 (de Gruyter, GW) <733-1614>
ISBN 978-3-11-133712-8 hard ¥22,350.- (税込) EUR 94.95

W.モリスと政治学の美的構成　第2版
Macdonald, Bradley J., William Morris and the Aesthetic Constitution of Politics. 2nd ed. 242 pp. 2024:12 (Lexington Books, US) <733-1616>
ISBN 978-1-66697-604-5 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00

While William Morris (1834-1896) is generally considered one of the most important cultural and political figures of late Victorian England, there is avid disagreement on the way in which we can understand the interconnections between his aesthetic commitments (as a celebrated poet and decorative artist influenced by Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism) and his later revolutionary socialist advocacy. As opposed to dominant interpretations within Morris scholarship, Bradley J. Macdonald argues for the importance of understanding the role a "critical notion of beauty" had in moving Morris toward a theory of socialism that took seriously the way in which desire, pleasure, and "beauty" (as applied to all externals of human life, not just art works) could be regenerated only through radical transformations in socioeconomic life. Consequently , William Morris's development represents an interesting example of cultural politics. Given this genealogy, Macdonald clarifies, Morris's mature political theory incorporated a very important commitment to not just economic justice, but also, among other distinctive applications ; ecological sustainability, making him one of the first eco-socialist theorists within the Western tradition, and also an early proponent of what is today known as "degrowth communism."

イギリス、フランス、イタリアにおける労働者階級　1968～89年
Myers, Matt, The Halted March of the European Left: The Working Class in Britain, France, and Italy, 1968-1989. (Oxford Historical Monographs) 272 pp. 2025:2 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <733-1617>
ISBN 978-0-19-894461-4 hard ¥28,205.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00

The European left seemed to be in rude health during the 1970s. Never had so many political parties committed to representing the working class been in power simultaneously across the continent. New forms of mobilisation led by female, immigrant, and young wage-earners seemed to reflect the growing strength of the workers' movement rather than its pending obsolescence. Parties and trade unions grew rapidly as a diverse new generation entered the ranks. Why did the left's forward march halt so abruptly? The Halted March of the European Left shows how the left's defeats after the mid-1970s were not the inevitable result of deindustrialisation or, more precisely, the transition to a globalised and post-Fordist world that abolished the working class as a great historical actor. Choices that were made during a concentrated but decisive historical moment contributed to the left's lost combats. The British, French, and Italian left managed the shift to a new era by marginalising those groups of workers who had invested it with hopes of social and political transformation. Communist, socialist, and social democratic parties helped disempower the new components of the working class in workplaces, in society, in the political system, and successfully disciplined their traditional working-class supporters. The left encountered a crisis of purpose and identity, a sense of both defeat and lost opportunities, and the dissolution of the idea of a community of fate amongst workers. This book provides a comparative analysis of the left's fragmenting relationship with the working class and a "feel" for the culture of three leading industrial countries during a traumatic transition of late twentieth-century history. It concludes that decisions taken by the left during the 1970s contributed to the tragic inversion of the expected outcome of that hopeful decade.

Tischkewitz, Ursel, "Wie wir uns erganzten": Lebens- und Arbeitsgemeinschaften in Deutshland zwischen Reform und Moderne. 582 S. 2024:7 (Tectum-Vlg., GW) <733-1619>
ISBN 978-3-8288-5160-3 hard ¥29,189.- (税込) EUR 124.00

Wannenwetsch, Stefan, "Es Gibt Noch Arbeiter in Deutschland": Zur Kategorie 'Arbeiter' in der bundesdeutschen 'Arbeitnehmergesellschaft'. (Ordnungssysteme 60) 730 S. 2024:6 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <733-1620>
ISBN 978-3-11-108629-3 hard ¥18,819.- (税込) EUR 79.95 *

Wobbe, Theresa / Renard, Lea / Braig, M. (Hrsg.), Sklaverei, Freiheit und Arbeit: Sozio-historische Beitraege zur Rekonfiguration von Zwangsarbeit. 320 S. 2024:12 (de Gruyter, GW) <733-1621>
ISBN 978-3-11-133484-4 hard ¥16,465.- (税込) EUR 69.95

Lyon, William Blakemore, Forged in Genocide: Migrant Workers Shaping Colonial Capitalism in Namibia, 1890-1925. (Africa in Global History 9) XI, 322 S. 2024:7 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <733-1145>
ISBN 978-3-11-137465-9 hard ¥16,465.- (税込) EUR 69.95 *

Forged in Genocide traces the early history of colonial capitalism in Namibia with a central focus on migrants who came to be key to the economy during and as a result of the German genocide of the Herero and Nama (1904-1908). It posits that Namibia, far from being a colonial backwater of the early 20th century, became highly integrated into the labor flows and economies of West and Southern Africa, and even for a time was one of the most sought-after regions for African migrants because of relatively high wages and numerous opportunities resulting from the war’s demographic devastation paired with an economic frenzy following the discovery of diamonds. In highlighting the life stories of migrants in Namibia from regions as diverse as the Kru coast of Liberia, the Eastern Cape of South Africa, and the Ovambo polities of Northern Namibia, this work integrates micro-history into larger African continental trends. Building off of written sources from migrants themselves and utilising the Namibian Worker Database constructed for this project, this book explores the lives of workers in early colonial Namibia in a way that has hereto not been attempted.