Ab Imperio Award: winners

Dear friends!

We are glad to inform you about the summing up of the Ab Imperio Award on the best study of 2017 in the new imperial history and history of diversity in Northern Eurasia up to the late 20th century.

We are pleased that this contest attracted interest in the scientific community. The international commission, composed of members of the editorial board and editors of Ab Imperio, had to make considerable efforts to select the most worthy candidates among the many remarkable works.

The acquired experience of participation in the Ab Imperio Award allows us to hope that our sponsorship to the Award will be annual. Follow the announcements.

So, the winners:

• Best book:

Krishan Kumar. Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 600 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-691-15363-6.

• Best article in a peer-reviewed academic journal or chapter in a scholarly collection:

Choi Chatterjee, “Imperial Subjects in the Soviet Union: Rabindranath Tagore, M. N. Roy, and Re-Thinking Freedom and Authoritarianism,” in Journal of Contemporary History, Volume 52, Issue 4 (October 2017): 913-934.

We congratulate the winners and wish them further success!