Gunder Frank wins 1999 WHA Book Prize

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> >  From: David Chappell
> >            University of Hawaii
> >            dchappel@hawaii.edu
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> > I would like to announce that Andre Gunder Frank has won the 1999 World
> > History Association Book Award, for his RE-ORIENT: GLOBAL ECONOMY IN THE
> > ASIAN AGE (UC Berkeley Press, 1998).  The WHA Book Award Committee
> > regarded RE-ORIENT as exceptional for its breadth of vision, courageous
> > analysis and its warning not to let ethnocentrism prevent us from pursuing
> > world history from a global perspective.  I might add that the WHA Award
> > Committee is now entertaining nominations for next year's prize, which
> > should be a scholarly book that is published in 1999 and that employs
> > historical analysis from a global perspective, i.e., transregional in
> > scope, either comparative or perhaps even a case study with much wider
> > historiographic implications.  Ideally, nominees should be WHA members,
> > but we are willing to entertain input from others interested in world
> > history.  We have not yet set a deadline for nominations, but logically it
> > will be in late Fall.
> >
> >                        Sincerely, David A. Chappell
> >                                   Book Review Editor
> >                                   Journal of World History
> >                                   University of Hawai`i
> >                                   2530 Dole, Sakamaki A-203
> >                                   Honolulu, HI 96822-2383 USA
> >                                   Email: dchappel@hawaii.edu
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