Two German-related books out of six on the shortlist!
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For immediate release, 30 November 2001
Shortlist of first British Academy Book Prize
The shortlist for the 2001 British Academy Book Prize was
announced today. The prize, which aims to celebrate the best of
accessible scholarly writing within the humanities and social
sciences, has a shortlist of six books:
N Boyle Goethe: the Poet and the Age/Vol 2 Revolution and
Renunciation (Clarendon Press)
R R Davies The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the
British Isles (OUP)
I Kershaw Hitler: 1936-1945, Nemesis (Allen Lane)
D Lowenthal George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation
(University of Washington Press)
R Porter Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern
World (Allen Lane)
L Tickner Modern Life and Modern Subjects: British Art in the
early Twentieth Century (Yale University Press)
The shortlist of six books was chosen by a five-strong judging
panel chaired by Sir Anthony Kenny (Pro-Vice Chancellor, Oxford
University) who was joined by Bamber Gascoigne (author and
broadcaster); Professor Peter Hennessy (Attlee Professor of
Contemporary British History, Queen Mary, University of London);
Lord Quinton (author and former chairman of the British Library
board) and Dame Marilyn Strathern (William Wyse Professor of
Social Anthropology, Cambridge).
The judges will meet to decide and announce the winner on
December 19, 2001 at an award ceremony at the British Academy,
London. The Prize is worth £2,500 to the winner.
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Notes:
The British Academy Book Prize has been set up in 2001 to
improve the understanding of the humanities and social sciences
by encouraging the writing, publishing and sale of books that are
both academically excellent and accessible to the non-specialist
reader.
The British Academy, established by Royal Charter in 1902, is the
national academy for the humanities and social sciences. It is an
independent learned society - the counterpart to the Royal Society
that exists to service the physical and biological sciences - which
aims, among the disciplines it promotes, to represent the interests
of scholarship nationally and internationally and to promote
understanding of research and scholarship.
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Dr Duncan Large
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Department of German, University of Wales Swansea
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