The Political History Group (PHG), a committee affiliated with the Canadian Historical Association, is pleased to offer a prize for the best book in Canadian political history. The Canadian Historical Association’s Political History Group is pleased to announce the Canadian Political History Book Prize competition. The prize will be awarded in 2012 for an outstanding, well-written book judged to have made an original, significant, and meritorious contribution to the field of Canadian political history. Eligible books 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 books 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 copies of their books directly to each member of the prize committee or to contact their publishers and ask them to submit copies of their books on their behalf. The deadline for submissions is 31 December 2011. Members of the 2012 Selection Committee: Professor Robin Gendron (Chair)
Department of History
Nipissing University
100 College Drive, Box 5002
North Bay, ON P1B 8L7 Professor Stephanie Bangarth
Department of History
King's University College, University of Western Ontario
266 Epworth Ave.
London, ON N6A 2M3 Professor Norman Hillmer
Department of History - Carleton University
400 Paterson Hall, 1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa ON K1S 5B6 Please address any questions to Matthew Hayday, Chair of the Political History Group at mhayday@uoguelph.ca.
Past Winners
2011Ivana Caccia. Managing the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime: Shaping Citizenship Policy, 1939-1945.Ivana Caccia’s Managing the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime: Shaping Citizenship Policy 1939-1945 stands out for the quality of its scholarship, the suppleness of its arguments, and the contribution it makes to our understanding of the transition towards a broader and more inclusive definition of Canadian citizenship in the mid-20th century. Managing the Canadian Mosaic is a sensitive and effective analysis of public debates regarding the institutional responses to the challenges posed by the growing number of Canadians of non-British or French origin to national unity and a unified Canadian war effort during the Second World War. While acknowledging the nuances, contradictions, and even the ambivalence that characterised official Canadian policy towards ethnocultural minorities during the war, Caccia traces the emergence by the war’s end of a more open and inclusive perception of Canadian identity focused on shared values that challenged earlier definitions of Canadian identity that focused on the country’s Britishness. Clearly written, impeccably researched, and engagingly argued, Managing the Canadian Mosaic makes a significant contribution to ongoing debates about the changing nature of Canadian nationalism and identity in the mid-20th century and is essential reading for scholars interested in modern Canadian political history. |