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2007 Book Prize

List of 2007 Historic Preservation Book Prize Submissions

All texts published in the 2006 calendar year

  • James Archambeault's Historic Kentucky by James Archambeault ( University Press of Kentucky).

  • Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945 by Anthony J. Stanonis (Athens: University of Georgia Press).

  • Blue Front by Martha Collins (Graywolf Press).

  • Historic Preservation and the Imagined West: Eisenhower's Albuquerque, Denver and Seattle by July Mattivi Morley (University Press of Kansas).

  • Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943 by John F. Bauman and Edward K. Muller (University of Pittsburgh Press).

  • Southern Built: American Architecture, Regional Practice by Catherine W. Bishir (University of Virginia Press).

  • Hudson Valley Ruins by Thomas E. Rinaldi and Robert J. Yasinsac (University Press of New England).

  • Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and the Trade in Antiquities by Neil Brodie, Morag M. Kersel, Christina Luke, and Kathryn Walker Tubb (University Press of Florida).

  • New York’s Historic Armories: An Illustrated History, Nancy L. Todd (State University of New York Press). 

  • My Likeness Taken: Daguerreian Portraits in America, Joan L. Severa (The Kent State University Press).

  • The Antiquities Act: A Century of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, and Nature Conservation, David Harmon, Francis P. McManamon, and Dwight T. Pitcaithley (University of Arizona Press). 

  • The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984, Marvin J. Taylor (Princeton University Press). 

  • The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Mark Levinson (Princeton University Press). 

  • Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger, Bruce Kuklick (Princeton University Press).
     
  • What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality, Theda Skocpol, Ariane Liazos, and Marshall Ganz (Princeton University Press).

  • The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South, Matthew D. Lassiter (Princeton University Press). 


    List is updated upon receipt of additional submissions