Trevor Reese Memorial Prize - competition open

The Trevor Reese Memorial Prize was established by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in 1979. It is in the name of Dr Trevor Reese, a distinguished scholar of Australian and Commonwealth history, who was Reader in Imperial Studies at the Institute until his death in 1976. He was the author of several leading works in his field, and was both founder and first editor of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History . The Prize was established with the proceeds of contributions to a memorial fund by friends and colleagues of Trevor Reese throughout the Commonwealth and United States . The Prize, of £1,000, is awarded every three years to the author of a work which has made a wide-ranging, innovative and scholarly contribution in the broadly-defined field of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

The next award of the Prize will be in 2010, for books in the relevant field published in 2007 - 2009.

Previous winners include:

• Professor Andrew Porter, Religion Versus Empire? British Protestant missionaries and overseas expansion, 1700-1914 (Manchester University Press, 2004)
• Professor Catherine Hall, Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 (Polity Press, 2002)
• Terence Ranger, Voices from the Rocks (James Currey, Indiana University Press)
• Samita Sen, Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
• Alan Atkinson, The Europeans in Australia: A History. Volume One: The Beginning (Oxford University Press, Australia: Oxford, Auckland, New York, 1997)
• Rod Edmond, Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, 1997)
• Professor David K Fieldhouse, Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization: The United Africa Company 1929-1989 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994)

Authors or publishers wishing to submit titles for consideration should send two copies to Troy Rutt , Events &; Publicity Officer, Institute of Commonwealth Studies , at the address below, by 1 February 2010 .

Institute of Commonwealth Studies
School of Advanced Study, University of London
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