Ex Libris 2020

PRIZES

American Academy of Religion, best book in constructive-reflective studies. 
Benjamin, Mara H. The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018.

American Historical Association, Jerry Bentley Prize for best book in global or world-scale history. 
Satia, Priya. Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution. New York: Penguin, 2018.

American Historical Association, Albert J. Beveridge Award for a distinguished book in English on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada, from 1492 to the present.  
Enstad, Nan. Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

American Historical Association, J. Franklin Jameson Award for outstanding achievement in the editing of historical sources. 
Birge, Bettine. Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan: Cases from the Yuan dianzhang. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017.

American Historical Association, Friedrich Katz Prize for the best book in English on Latin American or Caribbean history. 
Gobat, Michel. Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018.

American Historical Association, James A. Rawley Prize for best book in Atlantic history. The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Frederick Douglass Book Prize for outstanding nonfiction book on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition. 
Taylor, Amy Murrell. Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Latin American Studies Association, 2019 Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award. 
Tore Olsson, Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the U.S. and Mexican Countryside. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017.

Modern Language Association, MLA Prize for outstanding first book.  
Cassedy, Timothy Blum. Figures of Speech: Six Histories of Language and Identity in the Age of Revolutions. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018.

Organization of American Historians, Merle Curti Award for best book in American social history.  
Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

Organization of American Historians, Avery O. Craven Award for the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the era of Reconstruction.  
McDaniel, W. Caleb. Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Pulitzer Prize in History.  
McDaniel, W. Caleb. Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

ARTS: HISTORY AND CRITICISM

Cohen, Aaron. Move on Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Holguín, Sandie. Flamenco Nation: The Construction of Spanish National Identity. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019.

Maertz, Gregory. Nostalgia for the Future: Modernism and Heterogeneity in the Visual Arts of Nazi Germany. Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2019.

McNair, Amy. Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings: An Annotated Translation with Introduction. Ithaca: Cornell University East Asia Program, 2019.

Ochs, Michael, ed. Music of the United States of America, Volume 27P: Di Goldene Kale, Piano-Vocal Score. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., 2019.

Sheppard, W. Anthony. Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Vogel, Shane. Stolen Time: Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

HISTORY: U.S.

Bauer, Ralph. The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019.

Bell, Richard J. Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019.

Brooks, Charlotte. American Exodus: Second-Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901–1949. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019.

Delaney, Michelle. Art and Advertising in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.

Enstad, Nan. Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Fischer, Marilyn. Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing: Constructing “Democracy and Social Ethics.” Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Harrold, Stanley. American Abolitionism: Its Direct Political Impact from Colonial Times into Reconstruction. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019.

Hoth, David R., et al., eds. The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series 20: 1 April–21 September 1796. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019.

Huggins, Benjamin L., et al., eds. The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series: Volume 27, 5 July–27 August 1780. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020.

Immerwahr, Daniel. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Johnson, David K. Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

McDaniel, W. Caleb. Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Parker, Traci Lynnea. Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

Schneider, Elena A. The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Shoemaker, Nancy. Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.

Stagg, John C. A., et al., eds. The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series: Volume 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019.

Taylor, Amy Murrell. Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Taylor, Candacy Ann. Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America. New York: Abrams Press, 2020.

Zabin, Serena. The Boston Massacre: A Family History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.

HISTORY: NON-U.S.

Birge, Bettine. Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan: Cases from the Yuan dianzhang. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017.

Blum, Hester. The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.

Braude, Mark. The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Exile to Escape. New York: Penguin, 2019.

Brian, Amber, et al., eds. and trans. History of the Chichimeca Nation: Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Seventeenth-Century Chronicle of Ancient Mexico. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.

Dekel, Mikhal. Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.

Gobat, Michel. Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018.

Lindenmeyr, Adele. Citizen Countess: Sofia Panina and the Fate of Revolutionary Russia. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019.

McChesney, Robert D., and Mohammad M. Khorrami, eds. Fayż Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah’s Afghan Genealogy, and Memoir of the Revolution. Leiden: Brill, 2019.

Parker, Geoffrey. Emperor: A New Life of Charles V. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

Popkin, Jeremy D. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 2019.

Satia, Priya. Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution. New York: Penguin, 2018.

Smith, Pamela H., ed. Entangled Itineraries: Materials, Practices, and Knowledges across Eurasia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.

Stevens, Donald F. Mexico in the Time of Cholera. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019.

Wang, Di. The Teahouse Under Socialism: The Decline and Renewal of Public Life in Chengdu, 1950–2000. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.

White, Joshua M. Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018.

 

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Cassedy, Timothy Blum. Figures of Speech: Six Histories of Language & Identity in the Age of Revolutions. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018.

Griffin, Benjamin, ed. Mark Twain’s Civil War: “The Private History of a Campaign that Failed.” Berkeley: Heyday and University of California Press for the Bancroft Library, 2019.

Johnson, Jeffrey S., et al., eds. The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne: Volume 5, The Verse Letters. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.

Jones, Sumie, and Adam L. Kern, eds. A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Metropolitan Centers, 1600–1750. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2020.

Keith, Jennifer, et al., eds. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea: Volume 1, Early Manuscript Books. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Moore, Sean D. Slavery & the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, & the Transatlantic Book Trade 1731–1814. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Roychoudhury, Suparna. Phantasmatic Shakespeare: Imagination in the Age of Early Modern Science. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.

Saltzman, Benjamin A. Bonds of Secrecy: Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

PHILOSOPHY

Dawson, Kellie, et al., eds. The Works of George Santayana. Volume VIII: Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019.

Kirmmse, Bruce H., ed. Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume II, Part I: Loose Papers, 1830–1843. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.

Kittay, Eva Feder. Learning from My Daughter: The Value and Care of Disabled Minds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Moland, Lydia L. Hegel’s Aesthetics: The Art of Idealism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

 

RELIGION

Benjamin, Mara H. The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018.

Eltschinger, Vincent, et al., eds. Dharmakirti's Theory of Exclusion (apoha). Part I. On Concealing; An Annotated Translation of Pramanavarttikasvavrtti 24, 16-45, 20 (Pramanavarttika 1.40-91). Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 2018.

Fluker, Walter E., ed. The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman. Volume 5: The Wider Ministry, January 1963–April 1981. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2019.

Foster, Elizabeth A. African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019.

White, Peter, ed. Augustine: Confessions, Books V-IX. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Wilson, Gordon, et al., eds. Works of Henry of Ghent: Summa (Quaestiones ordinariae) art. LX-LXII. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2018.