================= HES POSTING ================= ------- Forwarded from H-Ideas by Ross B. Emmett ---------- ********************************************************************** Social Science History Association 1996 President's Book Award Announcement The Social Science History Association announces the annual President's Book Award of $1,000 for a new manuscript. The prize is intended to reward an especially meritorious first work by a beginning scholar. Entrants will be judged on the criteria of scholarly significance, interdisciplinary reach, and methodological innovativeness, within the broad category of monographs analyzing past structures and events and change over time. SSHA invites studies of family and demography, popular mentalities, political economy, state-society relationships, electoral and legislative behavior, and the history of the social and behavioral sciences. Other substantive realms may also be represented. The Association includes in consideration theoretically-informed accounts examined from quantitative, interpretive, and other perspectives. Manuscripts can be under consideration by a press at the time of submission to the award committee but a book must not be in print before the prized is awarded on October 12, 1996. A letter from the press stating that the manuscript will not be published before October 12, 1996 will be required. The deadline for submission is July 1, 1996. A bound copy of the manuscript should be sent to EACH member of the committee at the addresses given below. You may contact the Committee Chair, Martha Olney, via e-mail at [log in to unmask] with any queries, via snail-mail at the address below, or via FAX at 510-527-4558. Martha Olney Economics Department University of California 549 Evans Hall #3880 Berkeley, CA 94720-3880 Ruth E. Wasem CRS/EPW (7440) Congressional Research Service Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540-7440 Leslie J. Reagan Department of History 309 Gregory Hall 810 South Wright Street University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana Urbana, IL 61801 Robert McCaa Department of History Social Science 614 University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455-0406 We look forward to your submissions. ********************************************************************** ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]