Annal:1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year 1994. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History
- History books
- History authors
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors.
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
- 1994 LATimes–History winner
- Score: 10.44
Gay New York shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Based on years of research and access to a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, this book is a fascinating portrait of a gay world that was not supposed to have existed.
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
- 1994 LATimes–History finalist
- Score: 6.44
New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women’s unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies. Barber “weaves the strands of mythology and literature, archaeology, ethnology, and documented history into a rich tapestry” says John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review.
Marriage of Likeness: Same-sex Unions in Pre-modern Europe
- 1994 LATimes–History finalist
- Score: 6.44
- 1994 LATimes–History finalist
- Score: 6.44
Is antisemitism on the rise in America? Did the “hymietown” comment by Jesse Jackson and the Crown Heights riot signal a resurgence of antisemitism among blacks? The surprising answer to both questions, according to Leonard Dinnerstein, is no—Jews have never been more at home in America. But what we are seeing today, he writes, are the well-publicized results of a long tradition of prejudice, suspicion, and hatred against Jews—the direct product of the Christian teachings underlying so much of America’s national heritage.
In Antisemitism in America,…
Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
- 1994 LATimes–History finalist
- Score: 6.44
Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history. Yet this study is among the first to examine the relationship between ethnicity and identity among the largest immigrant group to that city. By focusing on Mexican immigrants to Los Angeles from 1900 to 1945, George J. Sanchez explores the process by which temporary sojourners altered their orientation to that of permanent residents, thereby laying the foundation for a new Mexican-American culture.
Analyzing not…
