[Bilimsel Haber] Call for Authors

2 Şub 2007 Cum 08:57:32 EET

From: Fred Nadis <FNadis at ABC-CLIO.com>

Call for Authors:

ABC-CLIO is in the process of developing a comprehensive 21-volume
Encyclopedia of World History that should become the standard reference
work in the field of world history.  We are seeking writing
contributions from interested scholars. We are looking for writers to
prepare 500-1500 word articles with a global perspective in the areas of
Cultural History and Popular Culture.

Authors will receive writing credits and free access to the online
version of the completed encyclopedia (List value: $1800). Due Date:
February 15.

If you are interested in writing 1 or more of these entries, please send
a c.v., and, if possible, a short writing sample to Fred Nadis and/or
Monique Vallance:

FNadis at abc-clio.com
MVallance at abc-clio.com

Thank you,

Fred Nadis, Ph.D.
Writer-Editor
World History Encyclopedia
ABC-CLIO
P.O. Box 1911
Santa Barbara, CA 93116-5505
USA

(805) 968-1911, ext 132
(800) 368-6868, ext 132

Open Entries - with word counts:

Era 9 - 1945 to present
Nature:
Philosophy of Nature, Aldo Leopold Land Ethic, Deep Ecology, Eco
Feminism (700)
Animal Rights (500)
Plants as Plaintiffs (400)
Levittown (200)
Zero Population Growth movement (200)
Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax" (200)
Green Peace (200)
1950s Disease Inoculation Programs, U.S. (600)
Refugees from Ecological Disasters (700)

Society/Class:
Class in U.S. society post World War II (600)
The Power Elite - C. Wright Mills  (200)
The War on Poverty (500)

Gender/Sexuality:
Men's Movements (600)
"Rambo" and Remasculinization (300)
Bodybuilding and Masculinity (600)
Kinsey Reports' Impact (200)
History of modern Gay/Lesbian Rights Movement (700)
Sex change operations (300)
Contraceptives (600)
The Pill (300)
Structural Shifts in Families, Divorce, Cohabitation (600)
Gay Marriage - global (400)

Education:
Rise of Mass Education, literacy, the University (1000)
International exchanges of scholars in Higher Ed.- global impact: (600)

Health:
social practices related to illness, death and dying (700)
Funeral Industry post-1945

Music:
Technology and Music (Electronic Instruments and Recording Media) (700)
Country Music industry  (600)

Film/TV:
Hollywood, Bollywood (700)
Global Action Film Genres (600)
Introduction Rise of TV, Industry and Culture (800)
TV News history (400)

Entertainment:
Electronic Developments and Entertainment (600)
Gamer culture (400)
Global Barbie (300)
Toy Industry (700)

Cold War:
Consumerism, Mass Culture, and Critiques (700)
Nixon Khrushchev Kitchen Debates (300)
Cold War Nuclear Anxieties, Hiroshima and Beyond (600)
Backyard Bomb Shelters (200)
Existentialism, Psychoanalysis, and Cold War Social Trends (700)
Mad Science in 1950s films (300)
Voice of America, Radio Free Europe (300)

Food:
Organic Foods Movement and Vegetarianism (600)
Fast Food Nations - Spread of Fast Food, Regional Adaptations (600)
McDonaldization Debates (350)

Protest:
Black Panthers as Global Icons (300)
Miss American protests 1969 (300)
protest movements post 1970  (800)

Consumerism/Self Image:
plastic surgery worldwide and shifting cultural ideals (600)
Prescribed "Cure culture", pharmaceuticals, mood altering drugs (700)
Youth Culture and Global Cool  (700)
Consumerism in post-war Europe (600)

Sports:
Olympics and International Conflicts  400

Art/Literature/Performance:
Modernism in Architecture post-1945 (500)
Nuclear Age and Apocalyptic Literature (700)
Political theater (700)
Theater of the Absurd (400)

Travel/Migration:
Eco-Tourism 750
Border Militarization 1000
Nomadic Peoples and Modern States (800)

Regimes:
De-Colonization in 1950s (1000)
De-Colonization in 1960s (1000)
Debate: U.S. as global Empire (700)

Human Rights:
The Civil Rights Movement in America 800
U.S. Civil Rights World Impact 400
Affirmative Action Programs (U.S., Brazil, S. Africa) 600
Amnesty International 300

Utopianism:
Modern Utopian Communities 800
1960s-70s Commune Movement (700)
Jonestown-Guyana (400)

Economics:
Rise of Service Industries, Information Societies, Outsourcing (600)
Corporations and Environmentalism  (600)
High Tech outside the First World (400)
Garbage and Toxic Waste (600)
Mass Merchandising (1000)
intellectual property  - global perspective 1000
New Management Theories (1200)

medicine:
global healthcare systems 1945 to present (1000)
Medical "Tourists" - New Medical Industries in East Asia  (400)
Nationalized Healthcare in Europe, Japan (400)
growth of pharmaceutical industry (800)

Labor:
White collar labor in Information Age (600)
U.S. labor unions Post-1945 (600)
modern slavery (600)
glass ceiling (200)

War/Peace:
the military industrial complex and  globalization of weapons production
800
Star Wars (missile defense) 300
Militarization of Space  300
gated communities 300
private security forces 300
Militarization of  Civilian Police Forces 600
Pacifist governments: Costa Rica and Japan 700
peace movements worldwide 1000
pacifism and the Vietnam War 800
anti-nuclear weaponry movements 600
anti-war in art,  literature, film  750
anti-landmine movement 400

Ideas:
Ideology: Developments in Marxism post 1945 1200
Habermas 200
Conspiracy Theories 1000
Structuralism and Post structuralism 800
Deconstruction and post modernism 800
Foucault's impact on social theory 500
semiotics  200
Conspiracy Culture and Science 700

Religion:
Christianity Moves to the Third World 750
English and the Spread of Religion 700
Judaism post-1945 (750)
Hinduism 750
Theocracies 600
Mormonism 600
Buddhism in the U.S.  Post WWII  (1000)
Beatniks and Zen (300)

Era 8 - 1900 to 1945
Population/Environment:
Urbanization and Suburbanization (600)
Education and Housing (600)
Refugees as a Phenomenon (600)

Gender:
Masculinities (1000)
Valentino and Gable as masculine ideals (300)

Entertainment:
Phonograph (as cultural shaper - diffusion of regional culture and
folklore) (1000 words)
Tango Fad of 1914 (200)
Movies (as Cultural Shaper) (1000)
Will Hays Office (300)
Hugo Gernsback's Radio Magazines; (300)

Colonialism:
Gandhi in Africa (300)
Camus's "The Stranger" (200)

Labor:
Post WWI growth in white collar labor (600)
Men's collars (200)
Unionism (600)
I.W.W. songbook (200)
Working Class and industrialization (600)
Ford Motors and Labor (300)
Industrial Health (1000)
Luminous Watch Dials & Radium Poisoning (300)
Labor in Agricultural Export Economies (600)
Workplace Safety (800)
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (300)
Forced Labor (e.g., Soviet Gulags, German Labor Camps) (1000)
Forced Art, Messian's Quartet for the End of Time (300)

Politics:
Millenarian Movements: Worldwide (600)
Early gay rights movement 600
Marxism 600
Building Socialism-as Economic system (600)

The Arts/Sports:
Expressionism in theatre (1000 words)
Literature as Vehicle for Nationalistic Movements (900)
Rise of National Music (collecting the regional folk musics) (600)
Exports of Sports to Colonial Possessions (600 words)
Sports as Cooperation and Protest (600 words)
World Labor Athletic Carnival: anti Nazi Olympics (300)
Official and Nationalist Art Asia and Oceania (e.g., anti-Japanese arts
in Korea; etc.) 600

War/Peace:
WWII Domestic Fronts: Allies (1000)
WWII Domestic Fronts: Axis (1000)
Nazi War Crimes vs. combatants (750)
Targeting of Civilian Populations: Bombings of Toys, Dresden, London
(750)
Global Economic Motivations for Peace (600)

Traditionalism & Modernism:
in Asia and Oceania 1000
in Europe 1000

Religion/Thought:
Global Spread of Protestantism 1000
Spread of Asiatic Religions 700
Pragmatism 600
Lester Frank Ward and Dynamic Sociology 300

Science/Technology/Business:
Automation 600
Efficiency Studies (post-Taylor) 1000
German Precision Production vs U.S. Mass Production (600)
Movies (technology/communication) 1000
Television (technology/communication) 1000

Era 7 - 1750-1914
Population/Environment:
Climate and the Painter's Eye (600)
Changing Patterns of Land Use in Colonial Africa (600)
Changing Patterns of Land Use in Colonial Asia (600)
Urbanization in India under Colonial Rule  (600)
Mass Transportation (1000)
Thinking about Population: Malthus (600)
Thinking about Population:  Fears of "Race Suicide" (600)
Birthrate Reduction through Family Planning (600)
Plant and Animal Life under Siege:  Extinctions and near-extinctions
(1000)
Polluted Waterways:  The Thames River and London's "Big Stink" of 1858
(600)

Class:
European Aristocracies in the Nineteenth Century (1000)
Middle Class Values: Self-Help Books 600
The Working Class in Industrial Societies 1000

Gender/sexuality:
Feminist Movements in Europe and the United States 1500
Housework  600
New Professional Opportunities for Women:  Nursing, Teaching, Clerical
1000
Beginnings of Gay Rights Movement in Europe 600
Lesbianism 600
Sex and Human Behavior in the Thought of Freud 600
Abortion 600

Food:
Government-Mandated Dietary Rules in Meiji Japan 600
New Techniques of Food Preservation: Canning and Freezing 600
Working Class Diet in Nineteenth-Century Europe 600
The "Cooking Revolution" in the West:  Cooking Ranges and Cook Books 600
Food and Health:  Dealing with Adulterated Food  600
Temperance Movements in Great Britain 600
Temperance Movement in the United States 600
Vegetarianism 600

Leisure:
Games 600
Reading 1000
Hunting 600
Religious Festivals 1000
Leisure in Europe: 1750-1800 (600)
Leisure in the Industrial Era (1000)
Music Halls and Beer Gardens 600
Golf 600
Tennis 600

Sports:
The Organization of Horse Racing in 18th Century England 600
Rugby Football  600
Symbolist Literature 650
Baseball in Meiji Japan and Latin America (600)
Athletics (Track and Field) (600)
The Professionalization of Sports in Europe and the United States 600

Globalization/Imperialism:
The Japanese Cult of the West in the Meiji Period  1000
European Influences on Indian Painting: 1700s and 1800s (600)
Music and Colonialism 700

The Arts:
Symbolist Literature 650
The Beginnings of Modern Architecture (600)
Modernism-Music 650
Colonialism and Architecture 650

Exploration/Tourism:
Explorations in Central and Southwest Asia 600
Exploration in Southeast Asia 600
European Explorers in the Pacific 1000
The Mapping of Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania 600
Polar Expeditions 1000
The Hajj in an Age of Steam 600
Tourism in the Railroad Era 1000
Spa Resorts in Europe and the U.S. 600
The Economics of European Travel 1000
World Travel:  1750-1800 (1000)

Labor:
Luddites 600
Women and Child Labor 1000
Factory Legislation 600

Religion:
Anti-Semitism 1000
The Zionist Movement 600
Jews under Ottoman Rule 600
Judaism in the United States 600
The YMCA Movement 600
Wovoka and the Ghost Dance Movement 500

Technology:
The Telephone and its Usage before WWI 1000
The Wireless 600
Internal Combustion Engines and their Applications 600
Hydroelectric Power 600
Rubber 600

Fred Nadis
<FNadis at ABC-CLIO.com>