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(i) Awards and Prizes

Among the awards and prizes for Press publications in 1999 were:

Lyndy Abraham, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery, Reference Reviews Outstanding Work of 1999 Award.

Simon Barton, The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century Leon and Castile, winner of the 1999 Premio De Rey Prize.

Stephen P. Bensch, Barcelona and its Rulers, 1096-1291, winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America.

Stephen Bicknell, The History of the English Organ, winner of the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize of the American Musical Instrument Society.

Albert Boime, The Unveiling of the National Icons: A Plea for Patriotic Iconoclasm in a Nationalist Era, winner of the Gustavus Meyers Center Outstanding Book Award.

Carles Boix, Political Parties, Growth and Equality: Conservative and Social Democratic Economic Strategies in the World Economy, winner of the 1999 Best Book Award in Political Economy of the American Political Science Association.

H. W. Brands, What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy, shortlisted for the 1999 Lionel Gelber Prize.

David M. Bressoud, Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture, winner of the 2000 MAA Beckenbach Book Prize.

Christopher R. Browning, Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers, Alternate Selection of the History Bookclub.

Paul Cartledge, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece, winner of the 1998 John D. Criticos Prize of the London Hellenic Society.

Janet Galligani Casey, Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine, winner of the 1999 Modern Language Association's Prize for Independent Scholars.

Richard L. Cleary, The Place Royale and Urban Design in the Ancien Regime, Honourable Mention for the 1999 Vasari Award of the Dallas Museum of Art.

Inga Clendinnen, Reading the Holocaust, one of the 10 Best Books of 1999 from The New York Times Book Review, and winner of the 1999 National Jewish Book Award of the Jewish Book Council.

Ruth Coates, Christianity in Bakhtin: God and the Exiled Author, winner of the 1999 Conference on Christianity and Literature Book Prize.

Olivia Remie Constable, Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1500, winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America.

Stephen B. Dobranski and John P. Rumrich, Milton and Heresy, winner of the 1999 Milton Society of America's Irene Samuels Award.

Louis Dubin, The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste, finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, History category 1999.

Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life, winner of the 1999 Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award, and winner of the Diamond Anniversary Prize for Most Outstanding Book from the National Communication Association.

Thomas Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Honourable Mention for the Best Book of the Year in Comparative Research from the Society for Comparative Research.

Jaroslav Folda, The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187, winner of the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America.

Jonathan Frankel, The Damascus Affair: 'Ritual Murder,' Politics, and the Jews in 1840, winner of the Arnold Wiznitzer Prize for Jewish History.

Noah E. Friedkin, A Structural Theory of Social Influence, winner of the 1999 Best Book Award in Mathematical Sociology of the American Sociological Association.

John Hagan and Bill McCarthy, Mean Streets: Youth, Crime and Homelessness, winner of the 1998 Michael J. Hindelang Award of the American Society of Criminology.

Jonathan M. Hall, Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity, winner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit of the American Philosophical Association.

Wilhelm Hortmann, Shakespeare on the German Stage: The Twentieth Century, finalist for the 1999 George Freedley Memorial Award of the Theatre Library Association.

David Job, New Directions in Geographical Fieldwork, winner of a Geographical Association Silver Certificate, 1999.

Howard Clark Kee, Eric M. Meyers, John Rogerson and Anthony Saldarini, The Cambridge Companion to the Bible, Library Association winner of the Gratz College Centennial Award.

Lynn Hollen Lees, The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700-1948, Honourable Mention for the British Council Prize.

John A. Lynn, Giant of the Grand Siecle: The French Army, 1610-1715, winner of the 1998 Phi Alpha Theta Book Award.

Angi Malderez and Caroline Bodóczky, Mentor Courses, A resource book for trainer-trainers, winner of the Ben Warren International House Trust Prize 1999.

Anthony W. Marx, Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa and Brazil, co-winner of the 1999 Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association.

John McCormick and Bennie Pratasik, Popular Puppet Theatre in Europe, 1800-1914, finalist for the 1999 George Freedley Memorial Award of the Theatre Library Association.

Diana C. Mutz, Impersonal Influence: How Perceptions of Mass Collectives Affect Political Attitudes, winner of the American Political Science Association's Best Book in Political Psychology.

Jack D. Pressman, Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine, winner of the 1999 Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine.

Ilya Prizel, National Identity and Foreign Policy: Nationalism and Leadership in Poland, Russia and Ukraine, co-winner of the 1999 Marshall Shulman Book Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

J. Mark Ramseyer and Frances M. Rosenbluth, The Politics of Oligarchy: Institutional Choice in Imperial Japan, winner of the Luebbert Prize for the Best Book in Comparative Politics of the American Political Science Association.

Michael Richards, A Time of Silence: Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Franco's Spain 1936-1945, winner of the 1998 Longman 'History Today' Book of the Year Award.

Robert G. Robinson, The Clinical Neuropsychiatry of Stroke: Cognitive, Behavioral and Emotional Disorders Following Vascular Brain Injury, winner of the 1999 American Psychiatric Association Award for Research.

Robert M. Ryan, The Romantic Reformation: Religious Politics in English Literature 1789-1824, winner of the British Council Award in the Humanities.

Richard W. Schoch, Shakespeare's Victorian Stage: Performing History in the Theatre of Charles Kean, Honourable Mention for the Bernard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History and Cognate Areas of Theatre Studies.

Esther-Mirjam Sent, The Evolving Rationality of Rational Expectations: An Assessment of Thomas Sargent's Achievements, winner of the 1999 Gunnar Myrdal Prize.

Simon I. Singer, Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform, winner of the 1999 Albert J. Reiss Jr. Distinguished Scholar Award of the American Sociological Association.

Brian Skyrms, Evolution of the Social Contract, winner of the Lakatos Award.

Lynn T. Staheli, Arthrogryposis, shortlisted in the 1999 BMA Medical Book Awards.

Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation, winner of the 1999 Morris D. Forkosch Prize of the Journal of the History of Ideas, winner of the 1999 Avery O. Craven Award of the Organization of American Historians, and winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians.

David Stark and Laszlo Bruszt, Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe, winner of the American Sociological Association's Section on Political Economy of the World System Best Book Award.

James P. Sterba, Justice for Here and Now, winner of the 1998 Book of the Year Award of the North American Society for Social Philosophy.

Marvin Trachtenberg, Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art and Power in Early Modern Florence, winner of the 1999 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Michael Wachtel, The Development of Russian Verse: Meter and its Meanings, winner of the 1999 Best Book in Literary or Cultural Studies of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.

Don Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby, The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Volume 1: Beginnings to 1870, winner of the Bernard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, and Honourable Mention for the George Freedly Memorial Award of the Theatre Library Association.

Linda Gertner Zatlin, Beardsley, Japonisme, and the Perversion of the Victorian Ideal, winner of the College Art Association's Historians of British Art Book Award.


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Cambridge University Reporter Special, 16 August 2000
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