The Political History Group (PHG), a committee affiliated with the Canadian Historical Association, is pleased to offer a prize for the best article in Canadian political history.
The Canadian Historical Association’s Political History Group is pleased to announce the Canadian Political History Article Prize competition. The prize will be awarded in 2012 for the outstanding, well-written English-language article judged to have made an original, significant, and meritorious contribution to the field of Canadian political history. Eligible articles must have been published between 1 December 2010 and 30 November 2011. The prize will not be awarded if there are fewer than four nominations; however, any articles submitted will be considered in the following year's competition. The award will be given in May 2012 at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association at the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. Authors are invited to submit a hard copy of their article directly to each member of the prize committee or to contact their journal editors or book publishers and ask them to submit an article offprint on their behalf. The deadline for submissions is 31 December 2011. Members of the 2012 Selection Committee: Professor Penny Bryden (Chair)
Department of History
University of Victoria
P.O. Box 3045 STN CSC
Victoria, BC V8W 3P4 Professor Jerry Bannister
History Department
Dalhousie University
6135 University Ave.
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2 Professor Jennifer Stephen
Department of History
York University
2140 Vari Hall
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Please address any questions to Matthew Hayday, Chair of the Political History Group at mhayday@uoguelph.ca Past Winners 2011 Bradley Miller. ‘A carnival of crime on our border’: International Law, Imperial Power, and Extradition in Canada, 1865-1883,” Canadian Historical Review vol. 90 no. 4 (December 2009). In a carefully argued and meticulously researched study of the origins of Canada's extradition law in the early years of Confederation, Bradley Miller showcases some of the important new directions in which Canadian political history is moving. "'A carnival of crime at our border': International Law, Imperial Power, and Extradition in Canada, 1865-1883" links the exercise of political and legislative authority in the early national period to the imperatives of imperial sovereignty, arguing that despite a decade of effort, the Canadian extradition law remained an "unwilling protegé" of both British and European precursors. This important article positions Canadian legislation firmly within the domestic, imperial and international contexts, illustrating both the multiple sites of negotiation for 19th century Canadian politicians and lawmakers, and also the ways in which a focus on domestic political activities can contribute to our understanding of power in an increasingly interconnected world. |