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La American Historical Association está preparando su próxima reunión anual, la que hace el número 122, a celebrar la primera semana de enero en Washington, D.C. Durante el mes de noviembre han ido conociéndose los galardones que se entragarán en esas fechas, con la institución  presidida entonces por Gabrielle M. Spiegel, de la Johns Hopkins Universit . De entre todos ellos, les refiero los libros premiados:Herbert Baxter Adams PrizeFrancine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union, Cornell Univ. Press, 2005George Louis Beer PrizeJ. P. Daughton, An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880–1914, Oxford Univ. Press, 2006Albert J. Beveridge AwardAllan M. Brandt, The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America, Basic Books, 2007James Henry Breasted PrizeJohn Matthews, The Journey of Theophanes: Travel, Business, and Daily Life in the Roman East, Yale Univ. Press, 2006John H. Dunning PrizeLinda Nash, Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge, Univ. of California Press, 2007John E. Fagg Prize &#38; James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic HistorySabine MacCormack, On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru, Princeton Univ. Press, 2006John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian HistoryEugenia Lean, Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China, Univ. of California Press, 2007Morris D. Forkosch PrizeDeborah Cohen, Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions, Yale Univ. Press, 2006Leo Gershoy AwardRichard B. Sher, The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America, Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s HistoryMrinalini Sinha, Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire, Duke Univ. Press, 2006Littleton-Griswold PrizeDalia Tsuk Mitchell, Architect of Justice: Felix S. Cohen and the Founding of Americam Legal Pluralism, Cornell Univ. Press, 2006J. Russell Major PrizeMartha Hanna, Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War, Harvard Univ. Press, 2006Helen and Howard R. Marraro PrizeJohn A. Davis, Naples and Napoleon: Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 1780–1860, Oxford Univ. Press, 2006George L. Mosse PrizeDavid Blackbourn, The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany, W.W. Norton, 2006Wesley-Logan PrizeRosanne Marion Adderley, "New Negroes from Africa": Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean, Indiana Univ. Press, 2006Sylviane A. Diouf, Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, Oxford Univ. Press, 2006