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History Spring 2011 Newsletter
Faculty News:
Daniel Baugh published The Global Seven Years War 1754-1763: Britain and France in a Great Power Contest (Harlow, England: Pearson Education/Longman History, 2011). A book launch was held on July 28 at the National Maritime Museum (Greenwich, UK). On the same occasion Dan was presented with the museum's Caird Medal, which is awarded to an individual who "has done conspicuously important work in the field of the Museum's interests and is of a nature which involves communicating with the public." Recent recipients of the medal include Robert Ballard, Sir David Attenborough, Paul Kennedy, David Armitage and Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow. Stephen Conway calls the book "a masterly and accessible narrative, based on many years of study and reflection." John Shy praises a "clear and engaging narrative, informed and highly informative, smoothly melding political, diplomatic, military and naval history into a single, persuasive account." Ian Steele says "Daniel Baugh displays astonishing breadth...The result is a narratve bristling with fresh and challenging perspectives, insights and evaluations. Masterful."
Peter Dear will hold the Carnegie Trust Centenary Professorship (for January - June 2013) at the University of Aberdeen.
Mary Beth Norton has won the 2011 Cincinnati History Prize of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey for "distinguished achievement in advancing the knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of American history" for her book, Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (New York: Vintage, 1997).
Vic Koschmann has published the Japanese translation of Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan (Tokyo: Heibonsha Ltd., Publishers, 2011).
Will Provine has won the first David L. Hull Prize of the International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, in recognition of "extraordinary contributions to scholarship and service in ways that promote interdisciplinary connections between history, philosophy, social studies, and biology and that foster the careers of younger scholars."
Barry Strauss's Spartacus War has been published in Korean translation (Seoul: Geulhangari Publishers, 2011).
Eric Tagliacozzo is co-editor with Wen-Chin Chang of Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011), which Peter Perdue of Yale calls "a pioneering investigation" and Wang Gungwu of the National University of Singapore "recommends this collection to all who wish to understand why the region is what it is today."
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