The Biennial George Perkins Marsh Prize
Congratulations to Contributors of ELAHC - Since 269 members of CLAH contributed to the "Encyclo-pedia of Latin American History and Culture, I am using the good offices of the Secretariat to relay
some very wonderful news.
Karen Day, Publisher of ELAHC, has just notified me that we are into our Third Printing! In addition, we had a banner day on January 3 at the AHA. At the CLAH luncheon, President Donna Guy presented me with the "Outstanding Service Award" for my role as Editor in Chief of "ELAHC." That evening, I was given the Waldo G. Leland Award from the AHA for the "Outstanding Reference Tool in the Field of History Published in the Last Five Years." The citation read:
This monumental project furnishes information on individuals and on cultural and political institutions well beyond the more famous ones. It gives a laudable and unusual amount of attention to Brazil. The 832 contributors, drawn from more than twenty countries, include a heavier concentration of senior scholars than one finds in other encyclopedias. The excellent bibliographies include recent works in English. This set should render obsolete most, if not all, previous works on Latin America.
All of us, Scribner's, the Associate Editors and I, the Advisory Board, and each of the 832 contributors, should be very proud of these distinctions and I will be delighted to keep you posted should there be new ones. For those of you who still wish t o take advantage of the special discount for contributors, please contact me and I will do my best to expedite the process.
Saludos de Barbara Tenenbaum, Editor in Chief
HAHR Editorial Office - We are pleased to announce that on July 1, 1997, the editorial office of the Hispanic American Historical Review will move to Yale U.. Gilbert M. Joseph and Stuart B. Schwartz will share the post of managing editor.
Mark D. Szuchman, Managing Editor
"Imaging the City of the Americas: Washington, D.C. and Mexico City, 1910" held at the Library of Congress and at the Mexican Cultural Institute on Oct. 23-24, 1996. The symposium was jointly sponsored by The Hispanic Div. of the Library of Cong ress, the Getty Research Inst. for the History of Art and the Humanities (Santa Monica, CA), the Mexican Cultural Institute, and the Latin American Center of the U. of Maryland. The events were part of a larger continuing project and multi-national resear ch effort that explores the creative functions of images in the formation of urban and national identities.Mexican author Carlos Monsiváis delivered the keynote address. After welcoming remarks from James Billington, Librarian of Congress, the pane l at the Library featured a presentation by Thomas Reese, Deputy Director of the Getty, and film clips, architectural drawings, photographs, and maps comparing the two capitals by Library of Congress and Mexicanist scholars. Three panels held at the stat ely Mexican Cultural Institute, a mansion built in 1910, featured scholars such as Barbara Tenenbaum, Library of Congress, Alejandra Moreno Toscano, Carmen Toscano Foundation, Richard Longstreth and Howard Gillette, George Washington U., Mauricio Tenorio, U. of Texas, Jorge Aguilar Mora, U. of Maryland, William Tobin, St Patrick's U., Dublin, Ireland, and Diane Skvarla, U.S. Senate Historian's office. Papers read during these sessions will be available on the Getty Institute's homepage next Jan. The Gett y Institute's FAX is 310/458-6661.
Proposals and Manuscripts Solicited for New Series - Latin American Realities is a new series to be published by M. E. Sharpe Inc. I have been asked to act as editor for the new series. The books will be published in paperback and hardc over, written for course adaptation use as well as for general readers. Each volume will present an interpretive historical topic touching the lives of ordinary Latin Americans, at any time from precolonial times to the present. Submissions may be either original studies or closely edited collections of original essays on a common theme. We envision publishing from three to five books a year. The series will be interdisciplinary although each volume should be historical in focus. The published volumes wil l run from 180 to 250 printed pages in length. Studies from anthropology, political science, geography, culture, and economics are welcome as long as they are historical in context and are readable by non-specialists. The common thread connecting the volu mes in the series will be understanding the realities of the lives of Latin Americans, either as individuals, as groups, nations, or blocs of nations.
Queries, proposals, or manuscripts should be sent to: Robert M. Levine, Dept. of History,
PO Box 8107, U. of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124-4662. tel: 305 284-5963
fax: 305 284-3558 E-mail: rlevine@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Stanford U. Press and the Stanford U. Libraries have been awarded a half-million dollar grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to publish scholarly books on the Internet.
The award will launch a collaboration between the Press and the Libraries to circulate scholarship in Latin American studies to a worldwide audience. The project has three primary goals: to provide inexpensive access to important scholarly work; to pr esent the material within a carefully integrated and technologically sophisticated knowledge environment; and to evaluate the economics of networked publication for scholarly books.
"By bringing together the complementary strengths of the U. Press and U. Libraries, this project gives us an unprecedented opportunity to explore the potential of online publishing for book-length scholarship," said Norris Pope, director of Stanford U. Press.
Stanford U. Press, which has served for 70 years as the U.'s scholarly imprint, is a leading academic publisher. Its offerings in Latin American studies--including works in history, politics, and anthropology--have won numerous awards, such as the Beve ridge Prize, the Bolton Prize, the Cline Prize, and the Wheeler-Voegelin Prize.
Stanford Libraries have become a center for electronic publishing activities through their HighWire Press division (http://highwire.stanford.edu). HighWire Press collaborated with the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to produce t he Journal of Biological Chemistry Online, one of the first, full-text world-wide-web versions of a science journal. Currently, it publishes online versions of Journal Watch (Massachusetts Medical Society), the Journal of Clinical Investigation (American Society for Clinical Investigations), the Journal of Neuroscience (for the Society for Neuroscience), Science Magazine (for the American Association for the Advancement of Science), as well as the JBC. A further dozen journals are in production or unde r contract for development.
The books scheduled for publication as a result of the new, three-year collaboration include twelve highly regarded works that Stanford U. Press has available print editions, along with four important new works that will be released electronically in a dvance of their print publication. Titles from the group of twelve include: The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries, by James Lockhart; Scarcity and Survival in Central America: Ecological Origins of the Soccer War, by William Durham; and Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America, edited by Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully.
These volumes will be accessible electronically on the World Wide Web without the need for a special workstation, allowing all readers to browse or download and copy any material they access. Access to the material will be by subscription to the colle ction or by purchasing access to a portion of one of the texts.