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The Order of Genocide

Race, Power, and War in Rwanda

Scott Straus

Winner of the Award for Excellence in Government and Political Science

Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers

 

The Spectacular Past

Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France

Maurice Samuels

Winner of the Gaddis Smith Book Prize

Yale University

 

Cartographies of Tsardom

The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia

Valerie Kivelson

Heldt Prize

Association for Women in Slavic Studies

 

The Complexities of Care

Nursing Reconsidered

Edited by Sioban Nelson and Suzanne Gordon

Book of the Year Awards (First Place in Community/Public Health, Professional Development and Issues, History and Public Policy categories; Third Place in Nursing Education and Staff Development and Nursing Leadership/Management categories)

American Journal of Nursing

 

Assisted Living for Our Parents

A Son's Journey

Daniel Jay Baum

Book of the Year Award (Third Place in History and Public Policy and Public Interest and Creative Works categories)

American Journal of Nursing

 

Empire of Nations

Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union

Francine Hirsch

Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

American Historical Association

 

Architect of Justice

Felix S. Cohen and the Founding of American Legal Pluralism

Dalia Tsuk Mitchell

Littleton-Griswold Prize

American Historical Association

 

The Same Solitude

Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva

Catherine Ciepiela

Prize for Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies

AATSEEL

 

Contested Tongues

Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine

Laada Bilaniuk

Best Book in Slavic Linguistics

AATSEEL

 

The Invention of Decolonization

The Algerian War and the Remaking of France

Todd Shepard

Council for European Studies Book Award

Council for European Studies

 

Defending the Border

Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia

Mathijs Pelkmans

William A. Douglass Book Prize

Society for the Anthropology of Europe

 

Differences That Matter

Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada

Dan Zuberi

Honorable Mention, Gustavus Meyers Award

Gustavus Myers Center

 

Differences That Matter

Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada

Dan Zuberi

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Choice Magazine

 

The Same Solitude

Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva

Catherine Ciepiela

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Choice Magazine

 

The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy

Douglas Biow

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Choice Magazine

 

Brutal Reasoning

Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England

Erica Fudge

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Choice Magazine

 

The Order of Genocide

Race, Power, and War in Rwanda

Scott Straus

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Choice Magazine

Milton's Peculiar Grace

Self-Representation and Authority

Stephen M. Fallon

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Choice Magazine

 

Seeds for the Future

The Impact of Genetically Modified Crops on the Environment

Jennifer A. Thomson

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Choice Magazine

 

Ethnic Bargaining

The Paradox of Minority Empowerment

Erin K. Jenne

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Choice Magazine

 

The Order of Genocide

Race, Power, and War in Rwanda

Scott Straus

Honorable Mention, Melville J. Herskovits Award

African Studies Association

 

Cartographies of Tsardom

The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia

Valerie Kivelson

Bainton History and Theology Prize

Sixteenth Century Society and Conference

 

Bach in Berlin

Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the St. Matthew Passion

Celia Applegate

DAAD Book Prize

German Studies Association

 

Differences That Matter

Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada

Dan Zuberi

Michael Harrington Award

New Political Science Caucus, American Political Science Association

 

Differences That Matter

Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada

Dan Zuberi

Finalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

 

From Silence to Voice

What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public

Second Edition

Bernice Buresh, Suzanne Gordon, and Patricia Benner, RN, Ph.D., FAAN

Winner of the Book of the Year Award in History and Public Policy

American Journal of Nursing

 

From Silence to Voice

What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public

Second Edition

Bernice Buresh, Suzanne Gordon, and Patricia Benner, RN, Ph.D., FAAN

Winner of the Golden Lamp Award for Best Media on How Nurses Present Themselves to the Public

 

From Silence to Voice

What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public

Second Edition

Bernice Buresh, Suzanne Gordon, and Patricia Benner, RN, Ph.D., FAAN

Winner of the AJN Book of the Year Award in History and Public Policy

American Journal of Nursing

 

Keepers of the Flame

Understanding Amnesty International

Stephen Hopgood

Best Book in Human Rights Award

Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association

 

Absolute Destruction

Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany

Isabel V. Hull

Winner of the Historical Book Prize in Modern History (19th Century)

H-Soz-u-Kult

 

Claiming the Pen

Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South

Catherine Kerrison

Winner of the Outstanding Book Award

History of Education Society

 

Nurses on the Move

Migration and the Global Health Care Economy

Mireille Kingma

Book of the Year Award in Nursing Management and Leadership

Book of the Year Award in History and Public Policy

Book of the Year Award in Professional Development and Issues

American Journal of Nursing

 

Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands?

The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines

Stephen C. McKay

Winner of the Sociology of Labor Book Award

Labor and Labor Movements Section, American Sociological Association

 

Subterranean Cities

The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945

David L. Pike

Shortlist, Modernist Studies Association Book Prize

 

Ending Empire

Contested Sovereignty and Territorial Partition

Hendrik Spruyt

Finalist, J. David Greenstone Book Award

Politics and History Section, American Political Science Association

 

The Spectacular Past

Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France

Maurice Samuels

Winner of the J. Russell Major Prize

American Historical Association

Charles Darwin, Geologist

Sandra Herbert

Winner of the Mary C. Rabbitt Award

History of Geology Division of the Geological Society of America

 

Charles Darwin, Geologist

Sandra Herbert

Winner of the 2006 George L. Mosse Prize

American Historical Association

 

Charles Darwin, Geologist

Sandra Herbert

Winner of the 2006 Levinson Prize for historical work in life sciences and natural history

History of Science Society

 

Charles Darwin, Geologist

Sandra Herbert

Winner of the 2006 Albion Prize

North American Conference on British Studies

 

The Invention of Decolonization

The Algerian War and the Remaking of France

Todd Shepard

Winner of the 2006 J. Russell Major Prize

American Historical Association

 

Living to Tell about It

A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration

James Phelan

Winner of the Perkins Prize

Society for the Study of Narrative Literature

 

Victorian Interpretation

Suzy Anger

Winner of the 2006 Sonya Rudikoff Book Award

Northeast Victorian Studies Association

 

Rules for the World

International Organizations in Global Politics

Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore

Best Recent Book on the UN System Award

Friends of ACUNS

 

Paranoia and Modernity

Cervantes to Rousseau

John Farrell

2006 Outstanding Academic Title

Choice Magazine

 

Ethnic Politics after Communism

Edited by Zoltan Barany and Robert G. Moser

2006 Outstanding Academic Title

Choice Magazine

 

Color Monitors

The Black Face of Technology in America

Martin Kevorkian

2006 Outstanding Academic Title

Choice Magazine

 

 

Calculating Credibility

How Leaders Assess Military Threats

Daryl G. Press

2006 Outstanding Academic Title

Choice Magazine

 

Darfur

The Ambiguous Genocide

Gerard Prunier

2006 Outstanding Academic Title

Choice Magazine

 

Diseases of Trees and Shrubs

Second Edition

Wayne Sinclair and Howard H. Lyon

2006 Outstanding Academic Title

Choice Magazine

 

The Globalizers

The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers 

Ngaire Woods

2006 Outstanding Academic Title

Choice Magazine

The Face of Decline

The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century

Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht

2006 Philip S. Klein Book Prize

Pennsylvania Historical Association

 

The Defeat of Solidarity

Anger and Politics in Postcommunist Europe

David Ost

Winner of the 2006 Ed A. Hewett Prize

AAASS

 

Empire of Nations

Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union

Francine Hirsch

Winner of the 2006 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize

AAASS

 

Logics of Hierarchy

The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations

Alexander Cooley

Cowinner of the 2006 Marshall Shulman Prize

AAASS

 

 

Veiled Empire

Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia

Douglas Northrop

Winner of the 2006 W. Bruce Lincoln Prize

AAASS

 

 

Inequality and Prosperity

Social Europe vs. Liberal America

Jonas Pontusson

Cowinner, 2006 Gladys M. Kammerer Award

American Political Science Association

 

Calculating Credibility

How Leaders Assess Military Threats

Daryl G. Press

Honorable Mention, Jervis and Schroeder Best Book Award

Intenational History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association

 

Walking on Fire

Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance

Beverly Bell

Winner of the Literature for Social Justice Book Award

PEN New Mexico

 

 

The Familial State

Raising Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

Julia Adams

Winner, Gaddis Smith Book Prize

The MacMillan Center, Yale University

 

A Man with No Talents

Oyama Shiro

Translated from the Japanese by Edward Fowler

Cowinner, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature

 

Generation Existential

Heidegger's Philosophy in France, 1927-1961

Ethan Kleinberg

Cowinner, Morris D. Forkosch Prize

Journal of the History of Ideas

 

Origins of the Other

Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics

Samuel Moyn

Cowinner, Morris D. Forkosch Prize

Journal of the History of Ideas

 

Hysterical Men

War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930

Paul Lerner

Winner, Cheiron Book Prize

Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences

 

Empire of Nations

Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union

Francine Hirsch

Cowinner, Council for European Studies First Book Award

 

The Myth of Ethnic War

Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s

V. P. Gagnon Jr.

Cowinner, Council for European Studies First Book Award

 

A Man with No Talents

Oyama Shiro

Translated from the Japanese by Edward Fowler

Finalist, Kiriyama Prize

 

The Face of Decline

The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century

Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht

Cowinner, Merle Curti Award

Organization of American Historians

 

Making Enemies

War and State Building in Burma

Mary Callahan

Winner, Harry J. Benda Prize

Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies

 

Heretics and Colonizers

Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus

Nicholas B. Breyfogle

Winner, Outstanding Publication Award

Ohio Academy of History

 

The Pride of Place

Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France

 Stéphane Gerson

Winner, Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies

Association for French Cultural Studies

 Lethe
The Art and Critique of Forgetting
Harald Weinrich
Translated from the German by Steven Rendall
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature
Modern Language Association

 

The Remnants of War
John Mueller
Winner, Lepgold Prize
Georgetown University 

 

Nursing against the Odds
How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine
Nurses and Patient Care
Suzanne Gordon
Winner, Golden Lamp Award for the Best Media Depiction of Nursing
Center for Nursing Advocacy

 

Summerfolk

A History of the Dacha, 17102000
Stephen Lovell
Winner, Award for Best Book in Literature and Culture
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

 

Condemned to Repeat?
The Paradox of Humanitarian Action
Fiona Terry
Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order
University of Louisville
 
Employment with a Human Face
Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice
John W. Budd
Winner, Richard A. Lester Award
Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University

 

Rules for the World
International Organizations in Global Politics
Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore
Winner, International Studies Association Book Award
International Studies Association

 

Absolute Destruction
Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany
Isabel V. Hull
Winner, Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
Phi Beta Kappa

 

Healing Identities
Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups
Cynthia Burack
Winner, Gradiva Award
National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis

 

Ritual Imports
Performing Medieval Drama in America
Claire Sponsler
Winner, Barnard Hewitt Award
American Society for Theatre Research

 

The Myth of Ethnic War
V. P. Gagnon Jr.
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine


Absolute Destruction
Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany
Isabel V. Hull
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine


Cosmopolitan Vistas
American Regionalism and Literary Value
Tom Lutz
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine


Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World
The Psychology of Political Behavior
Jerrold M. Post
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine


Crude Awakenings
Global Oil Security and American Foreign Policy
Steve A. Yetiv

Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine


Privatizing Poland
Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor
Elizabeth C. Dunn
Winner, Ed A. Hewett Prize
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

 

Privatizing Poland
Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor
Elizabeth C. Dunn
Winner, AAASS/Orbis Book Prize 
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

 

Absolute Destruction
Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany
Isabel V. Hull
Winner, DAAD Book Prize


The Myth of Ethnic War
Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s
V. P. Gagnon
Winner, Best Book Award in European Politics and Society
European Politics and Society Section of the American Political Science Association
 
Balancing Risks
Great Power Intervention in the Periphery 
Jeffrey W. Taliaferro

Winner, Jervis-Schroeder Award

International History and Politics section of the American Political Science Association


Final Solutions
Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century
Benjamin Valentino
Winner, Edgar S. Furniss Book Award
Mershon Center at The Ohio State University
 
The River Runs Black
The Environmental Challenge to China's Future
Elizabeth C. Economy
Winner, ICAS Book Prize in Social Sciences
International Convention of Asia Scholars 
 
Democracy's Voices
Social Ties and the Quality of Public Life in Spain
Robert M. Fishman
Honorable Mention, Best Book Award
Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
 
Robin Hood
Stephen Knight
Winner, Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies
Mythopoeic Society
 
Hesitant Heroes
Private Inhibition, Cultural Crisis
Theodore Ziolkowski
Honor Book
New Jersey Council for the Humanities
 
Ovid and the Moderns
Theodore Ziolkowski
Winner, Robert Motherwell Book Award
Dedalus Foundation
 
Nationalism and Historical Loss in Renaissance England
Foxe, Dee, Spenser, Milton
Andrew Escobedo
Winner, Nancy Dasher Prize in Literary Scholarship
College English Association of Ohio
 
State-Building
Governance and World Order in the 21st Century
Francis Fukuyama
Finalist, Arthur Ross Book Award
Council on Foreign Relations
 
Clio the Romantic Muse
Historicizing the Faculties in Germany
Theodore Ziolkowski

Winner, Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize

International Conference on Romanticism


Uncas
First of the Mohegans
Michael Leroy Oberg
Finalist, Biography and Memoir, Connecticut Book Awards
Connecticut Center for the Book
 
The Black Flies (Simuliidae) of North America
Peter H. Adler, Douglas C. Currie, D. Monty Wood,
with illustrations by Ralph M. Idema and Lawrence W. Zettler,
Foreword by Daniel H. Janzen
Winner, Single Volume Reference / Sciences book award
Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers
 
Shifting Landmarks
Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia around the Year 1000
Jeffrey A. Bowman
Winner, Premio del Rey
American Historical Association
 
Veiled Empire
Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia 
Douglas Northrop
Winner, Heldt Prize
Association for Women in Slavic Studies
 
The Beaver
Natural History of a Wetlands Engineer
Dietland Müller-Schwarze and Lixing Sun
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
 
Corporate Warriors
The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
P. W. Singer
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
 
Final Solutions
Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century
Benjamin A. Valentino
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
 
Radical Space
Building the House of the People
Margaret Kohn
Honorable Mention, Best Book in European Politics and Society
European Politics and Society section of the American Political Science Association
 
Whole World on Fire
Organizations, Knowledge and Nuclear Weapons Devastation
Lynn Eden
Robert K. Merton Professional Award
Science, Knowledge, and Technology section of the American Sociological Association
 
Machiavelli's Children
Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan
Richard J. Samuels
Winner, Jervis-Schroeder Prize
International History and Politics section of the American Political Science Association
 
The Pride of Place
Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France
Stéphane Gerson
Winner, Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History
American Philosophical Society
 
Corporate Warriors
The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
P. W. Singer
Cowinner, Gladys M. Kammerer Award
American Political Science Association
 
The Purpose of Intervention
Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force
Martha Finnemore

Winner, Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award

American Political Science Association


Reckoning with Homelessness
Kim Hopper
Finalist, C. Wright Mills Award
Society for the Study of Social Problems
 
Reckoning with Homelessness
Kim Hopper
Honorable Mention, Benjamin L. Hooks Outstanding Book Award
Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change
 
Summerfolk
A History of the Dacha, 17102000
Stephen Lovell
Winner, Alexander Nove Prize in Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Studies British
Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
 
Pivotal Deterrence
Third-Party Statecraft and the Pursuit of Peace
Timothy W. Crawford
Winner, Furniss Book Award
Mershon Center at The Ohio State University 
 
The Consumption of Justice
Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 12641423
Daniel Lord Smail
Cowinner, James Willard Hurst Prize
Law and Society Association

 
Framed!
Labor and the Corporate Media
Christopher R. Martin
Winner, Book Award for Best Single Author Work in Popular Culture Study Popular
Culture Association
 
Christopher Marlowe
A Renaissance Life
Constance Kuriyama
Cowinner, Roma Gill Prize
Marlowe Society of America
 
 
A Grand Strategy for America
Robert J. Art 
Finalist, Arthur Ross Book Award
Council on Foreign Relations
 
A Certain Idea of Europe
Craig Parsons
Winner, Chadwick F. Alger Prize
International Studies Association
 
Brokered Homeland
Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan
Joshua Hotaka Roth
Winner, Book Award in Social Science
Association for Asian American Studies.
 
The Copywrights
Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination
Paul K. Saint-Amour
Winner, MLA Prize for a First Book
 
Reforming Men and Women
Gender in the Antebellum City
Bruce Dorsey
Philip S. Klein Book Prize
Pennsylvania History Association
 
The Vanishing Hectare
Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania
Katherine Verdery
Winner, William A. Douglass Award in Europeanist Anthropology
Society for the Anthropology of Europe
 
The Vanishing Hectare
Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania
Katherine Verdery
Honorable Mention, Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
 
The Vanishing Hectare
Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania
Katherine Verdery
Honorable Mention, Barbara S. Jelavich Book Prize
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
 
Creating Christian Granada
Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 14921600
David Coleman
Winner, Best First Book Award
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
 
Corporate Warriors
The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
P. W. Singer
Finalist, Lionel Gelber Prize
Lionel Gelber Prize Board
 
 

 





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