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CU Press books win awards, prizes

Here is a list of recent awards and prizes won by Cornell University Press books.

Awards for 2001

Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century: Inventing Renaissance France by Timothy Hampton has been awarded the 2000 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies by the Modern Language Association.

These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey by Brendan McConville has been awarded the 2001 Richard P. McCormick Prize for Scholarly Publication by the New Jersey Historical Commission.

Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia by Karin Wulf has been selected as the Book Award Recipient by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.

Breaking the Watch: The Meanings of Retirement in America by Joel Savishinsky is the winner of the Gerontological Society of America's Kalish Award for Innovative Publishing.

Cornell University Press has received an Honorable Mention (History) from the 2001 Association of American Publishers Awards Program for Excellence in Professional/Scholarly Publishing for Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours by Frederic L. Cheyette.

The Bishop's Palace: Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy by Maureen C. Miller received the 2001 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize given by the Society for Italian Historical Studies.

Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor by Jefferson Cowie (Cornell assistant professor of collective bargaining, labor law and history) has been awarded the Philip Taft Prize for the best book published in labor history in 1999.

The German edition of The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival: Austria as Theater and Ideology, 1890-1938, by Michael Steinberg (Cornell professor of history), has been awarded the Victor Adler Austria Government Prize.

Choice Outstanding Academic Books for 2001:

Awards for 2000

Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America by Karen Ordahl Kupperman received the 2000 Prize in Atlantic History from the American Historical Association.

Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Medieval Marseille by David Lord Smail received the 2000 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize from the American Historical Association.

Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire by Timothy J. Shannon received the Distinguished Book Award of the Society of Colonial Wars.

Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe by Mary Baine Campbell won the James Russell Lowell Prize for 1999 and the 1999 Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship by the Center for Humanities Research at Texas A & M University.

Choice Outstanding Academic Books for 2000:

  • The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France by Joshua Cole.
  • Dragonflies: Behavior and Ecology of Odonata by Philip S. Corbet.
  • Life and Death in Ancient Egypt: Scenes from Private Tombs in New Kingdom Thebes by Sigrid Hodel-Hoenes, translated by David Warburton.
  • By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia by Nancy Shields Kollmann.
  • Writing Double: Women's Literary Partnerships by Bette London.
  • Mallarmé: The Poet and His Circle by Rosemary Lloyd.
  • These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey by Brendan McConville.
  • Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York by Donna Merwick.
  • Making Women Pay: The Hidden Costs of Fetal Rights by Rachel Roth.
  • The Deserts of Bohemia: Czech Fiction and Its Social Context by Peter Steiner.
  • In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919 by Susan Zeiger.

    May 16, 2002

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