The Longman-History Today Book of the Year longlist is announced, with three Yale titles in the running
Yesterday evening History Today magazine announced the longlist for the prestigious Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award. The longlist of 20 titles contains three Yale books, The Unfinished Revolution: Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central-Eastern Europe by James Mark, Tibet: A History, Sam Van Schaik and Palmerston: A Biography by David Brown. Today we take a look … Read more
Books Unbound: Non-Fiction Literary Prizes. Are they Useful?
It has been an exciting year for Yale University Press titles, with a large selection winning prestigious literary awards, including the History Today Prize and the £50,000 Warwick Prize for Writing. Here Yale publisher Heather McCallum, whose books have picked up four significant awards this year, discusses non-fiction prizes and their role within the publishing … Read more
Michael Hunter wins Samuel Pepys prize for ‘Boyle: Between God and Science’
Historian Michael Hunter has won the 2011 Samuel Pepys Award for his fascinating biography of 17th-century scientist and philosopher Robert Boyle. Boyle: Between God and Science by Michael Hunter has been awarded the biennial Samuel Pepys Award, which is given to a book which makes the greatest contribution to the understanding of the famous diarist Samuel … Read more
Jeffrey Herf’s ‘Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World’ has won the Sybil Halpern Milton Prize
Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World by Jeffrey Herf has won the 2011 Sybil Halpern Milton prize, awarded by the German Studies Association. Herf’s groundbreaking history connects Nazi Germany’s Arabic-language propaganda during World War II to anti-Semitism in the Middle East in the decades since. Today we take a look at this prizewinning book. It has been … Read more
Nigel Smith’s ‘Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon’ makes the shortlist for Best First Biography Prize
Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon, Nigel Smith’s definitive account of the British poet’s elusive life, has made the shortlist for the £5,000 HW Fisher Best First Biography Prize. Nigel Smith’s impressive portrait of Andrew Marvell has already received wide acclaim, having been dubbed a TLS ‘Book of the Year’ in 2010. Now, Yale is pleased to announce that … Read more
