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Prize Winning Titles

This page features an overview of prize winning titles from the Ashgate, Gower and Lund Humphries publishing programmes.

We are also proud to present some of our titles which have been awarded competitive publication grants.

2009 Prize Winners

	Before My Helpless Sight: Suffering, Dying and Military Medicine on the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Leo van Bergen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Awarded the 'Dr. J.A. Verdoorn-Award' for Excellent Scientific Work on the Topic of Medicine and War 2009			The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance by Rachel Farebrother, University of Swansea, UK Awarded an Honourable Mention in the British Association of American Studies Book Prize 2009
	Ethnographies of Reason by Eric Livingston, University of New England, Australia Winner of the 2009 EM/CA Section's Distinguished Publication Award			Negotiating Boundaries in the City: Migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Britain by Joanna Herbert, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Winner of the 2009 Oral History Association Book Award
	The Netherlandish Image after Iconoclasm, 1566–1672 by Mia M. Mochizuki, Jesuit School of Theology, and Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, USA Winner of the ACE/Mercers' International Book Award 2009			Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England by Leah Knight, Brock University, Canada Awarded the British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) Book Prize for 2009
	Olivier Messiaen's System of Signs: Notes Towards Understanding His Music by Andrew Shenton, Boston University, USA Winner of 2009 Max. B Miller Book Award from the American Guild of Organists Organ Library			The Perfect Genre. Drama and Painting in Renaissance Italy by Kristin Phillips-Court, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA (forthcoming) Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies 2009, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America
	Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles: It Was Forty Years Ago Today Edited by Olivier Julien, Universities of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), France Winner of the 2009 ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research: Best Research in Recorded Rock and Popular Music			Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland by John J. McGavin, University of Southampton, UK Winner, 2009 Frank Watson Book Prize in Scottish History
	Dale Sherman, author of Systems Cost Engineering, was awarded the 2009 Frank Freiman Award for his work on parametrics by the International Society of Parametric Analysts (ISPA).			What Are We Doing When We Pray?: On Prayer and the Nature of Faith by Vincent Brümmer, Emeritus, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Winner of the 2009 Andrew Murray-Desmond Tutu Prize for Christian and Theological Books
	William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science by William H. Brock, University of Leicester, UK Winner of the 2009 Roy G. Neville Prize in Bibliography or Biography presented by the Chemical Heritage Foundation

2008 Prize Winners

	Baroque Piety: Religion, Society, and Music in Leipzig, 1650–1750 by Tanya Kevorkian, Millersville University, USA Winner of the 2008 William H. Scheide Prize of the American Bach Society Shortlisted for the 2008 AMS Lewis Lockwood Award			Caste-based Discrimination in International Human Rights Law by David Keane, Brunel University, UK Winner of the Hart–SLSA 2008 Early Career Prize
	Church, State and Dynasty in Renaissance Poland: The Career of Cardinal Fryderyk Jagiellon (1468–1503) by Natalia Nowakowska, Somerville College Oxford, UK Winner of the Polish Studies Association's 'Jerzy and Aleksandra Kulczyccy Award for Best book in Polish Studies, 2007-08'			*Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words: The Social Life of Goods* by Catherine Waters, Reader in Victorian Studes, Rutherfod College, University of Kent, UK Winner of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals' Robert Colby Book Prize 2008
	The Constitutional Corporation: Rethinking Corporate Governance by Stephen Bottomley, Australian National University, Australia Winner of the Hart–SLSA 2008 Book Prize			Devotional Music in the Iberian World, 1450–1800: The Villancico and Related Genres Edited by Tess Knighton, University of Cambridge, UK and Álvaro Torrente, Royal Holloway Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain and University of London UK Winner of the American Musicological Society Stevenson Award 2008
	Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350–1530: Experience, Authority, Resistance by Andrea Pearson Awarded Honorable Mention in the 2008 Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship Best First Book competition			Global Project Management: Communication, Collaboration and Management Across Borders by Jean Binder Project Management Institute – David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award - 2008
	How Britain Got the Blues: The Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom by Roberta Freund Schwartz, Kansas University, USA Winner of the 2008 ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) Award for Excellence 'Best History'			Journalism as Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue Ethics and the Press by Sandra L. Borden, Western Michigan University, USA Winner 2008 Christians Ethics Research Award Winner 2008 Award for the Top Book in Applied Ethics from the National Communication Association's Communication Ethics Division
	Professor Cecil Helman, Editor of Medical Anthropology, was the winner of the 2008 George Abercrombie Award, one of the highest awards given by the Royal College of General Practitioners and awarded to 'the person who has made an outstanding contribution to the literature of general practice’.			Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell by Diane Kelsey McColley, Rutgers University, USA A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008
	Triumph of the South: A Regional Economic History of Early Twentieth Century Britain by Peter Scott, University of Reading, UK Winner of the 2008 Wadsworth Prize for the best book in the field of British Business History			Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, 1684–1814: In the Voice of Our Biblical Mothers by Elizabeth Kraft, University of Georgia, USA A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008

Prize Winners from 2001-2007 ...

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