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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – McGill-Queen's is very pleased to announce that we have four books shortlisted in three Canada Prize categories. Prizes will be presented at a special ceremony on Friday, March 30, 2012 at the Musée des beaux-arts in Montreal.
Read the press release from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences/la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines here.
Congratulations to Marilyn McKay, Roderick and Sharon Stewart, Peter van Wyck, and Michel Ducharme!
CANADA PRIZE IN THE HUMANITIES
Picturing the Land Marilyn J. McKay
Richly illustrated and filled with sophisticated and innovative commentary, Picturing the Land provides new and distinct histories of the landscape art of French and English Canada.
Phoenix Roderick Stewart and Sharon Stewart
Based on extensive research in Canada, Spain, and China, and in-depth interviews with Bethune's family, friends, colleagues, and patients, Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune is the definitive Bethune biography for our time.
CANADA PRIZE IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
The Highway of the Atom Peter C. van Wyck
From the fur trade routes of the far North, to the deserts of New Mexico and wartime Japan, The Highway of the Atom weaves together crucial missing pieces about the beginning of the Atomic Age in startling and unexpected ways.
PRIX DU CANADA EN SCIENCES SOCIALES
Le concept de liberté au Canada à l'époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776-1838) Michel Ducharme
Cet ouvrage revisite l'histoire intellectuelle et politique canadienne entre la révolution américaine et les rébellions de 1837-1838 au Haut et au Bas-Canada en la réintégrant dans le cadre des Révolutions atlantiques qui ont secoué l'Europe et l'Amérique entre 1776 et 1838.Reposant sur un cadre théorique inspiré des travaux des historiens intellectuels du monde atlantique, il traite plus particulièrement de l'importance du concept de liberté dans le développement de l'État dans les deux colonies.
MEDIA INQUIRIES –
Jacqui Davis, MQUP Publicist
tel 514 398 2555 email jacqueline.davis@mcgill.ca
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