The following are awards recently won by Cornell University Press books:
·The Making of American Exceptionalism. The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the 19th Century by Kim Voss won the 1995 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award for a First Book, given by the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.
·Cynthia J. Brown's Poets, Patrons and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France was named a co-winner of the 1995 Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, sponsored by the Modern Language Association.
·The European History Section of the Southern Historical Association presented the Charles Smith Award to The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment by Dena Goodman.
·Radical Democracy by C. Douglas Lummis received one of the 1996 Critics' Choice Awards given by the American Educational Studies Association.
·Robert E. Blobaum's Rewolucja: Russian Poland, 1904-1907, received the Oskar Halecki Polish History Prize from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences.
Cornell University Press, established in 1869, was the first university publishing enterprise in this country. It includes ILR Press and Comstock Publishing Associates and publishes about 175 books a year.