CFA: SAGE Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World (31 Dec)

FYI.... encyclopedias are a great, relatively easy way to get your feet wet in academic publishing.

We are inviting academic editorial contributors to the Multimedia
Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, a new print and electronic
reference that will look at women today around the world and delve into the
contexts of being female in the 21st century. Thus the scope of the
encyclopedia will focus on women’s status starting in approximately 2000
and look forward. The work will present state-of-the-art research,
ready-to-use facts. The 1,000 signed entries (with cross-references and
recommended readings) will cover issues in contemporary women’s and gender
studies and the articles will include information relevant to the following
academic disciplinary contexts: women in different cultures/countries; arts
and media; business and economics; criminal justice; education; family
studies; health; media; military; politics; science and technology; sports;
environmental studies; and religion. We are making assignments with a
submission due date of December 31, 2009.

This comprehensive project will be published in stages by SAGE Reference
and will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and
digital product available to students via the library’s electronic
services. The General Editors, who will be reviewing each submission to the
project, are Dr. Mary Zeiss Stange of Skidmore College, and Dr. Carol K.
Oyster of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

If you are interested in contributing to this cutting-edge reference, it is
a unique opportunity to contribute to the contemporary literature,
redefining women’s issues in today’s terms. Moreover, it can be a notable
publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing credits.
SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE book credits for
smaller articles up to a free set of the printed product or access to the
online product for contributions totaling 10,000 words or more.

The list of available articles is already prepared, and as a next step we
will e-mail you the Article List (Excel file) from which you can select
topics that best fit your expertise and interests. Additionally, Style and
Submission Guidelines will be provided that detail article specifications.

If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding reference
with the Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, please contact
me by the e-mail information below. Please provide a brief summary of your
academic/publishing credentials in women’s and gender issues.


Thanks very much.

Sue Moskowitz
Director of Author Recruitment
Golson Media
women at golsonmedia dot com

CFP: Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World (Encyclopedia; 1 Dec)

We are inviting academic editorial contributors to the Multimedia
Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, a new print and electronic
reference that will look at women today around the world and delve into the
contexts of being female in the 21st century. Thus the scope of the
encyclopedia will focus on women’s status starting in approximately 2000
and look forward. The work will present state-of-the-art research,
ready-to-use facts. The 1,000 signed entries (with cross-references and
recommended readings) will cover issues in contemporary women’s and gender
studies and the articles will include information relevant to the following
academic disciplinary contexts: women in different cultures/countries; arts
and media; business and economics; criminal justice; education; family
studies; health; media; military; politics; science and technology; sports;
environmental studies; and religion. We are making assignments with a
submission due date of December 1, 2009.

This comprehensive project will be published in stages by SAGE Reference
and will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and
digital product available to students via the library’s electronic
services. The General Editors, who will be reviewing each submission to the
project, are Dr. Mary Zeiss Stange of Skidmore College, and Dr. Carol K.
Oyster of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

If you are interested in contributing to this cutting-edge reference, it is
a unique opportunity to contribute to the contemporary literature,
redefining women’s issues in today’s terms. Moreover, it can be a notable
publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing credits.
SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE book credits for
smaller articles up to a free set of the printed product or access to the
online product for contributions totaling 10,000 words or more.

The list of available articles is already prepared, and as a next step we
will e-mail you the Article List (Excel file) from which you can select
topics that best fit your expertise and interests. Additionally, Style and
Submission Guidelines will be provided that detail article specifications.

If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding reference
with the Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, please contact
me by the e-mail information below. Please provide a brief summary of your
academic/publishing credentials in women’s and gender issues.


Thanks very much.

Sue Moskowitz
Director of Author Recruitment
Golson Media
women at golsonmedia dot com

CFP: Milestone Documents in World History (Encyclopedia)

Call for Writers

Schlager Group, the publisher of the award-winning "Milestone Documents"
series of reference books, is seeking writers for its newest project,
Milestone Documents in World History (MDWH). Aimed at high school and
lower undergraduate history students, MDWH covers 130 of the most
important primary source documents in history. Our unique approach pairs
the full text of the primary document alongside an in-depth analysis
that explains the historical context of the document as well as its
influence and impact. The set covers documents from every region and
period of history (excluding U.S. history), including Africa, the
Americas, the Western World, ancient Greece and Rome, the ancient Near
East, the Middle East, and Asia (China, India, Japan, Korea, Southeast
Asia).

Each entry will include approximately 4,500 words of original analysis.
Every entry will carry the author's byline. We welcome practicing
historians as well as talented graduate students. To receive more
information about the project, including the writing honorarium, model
entry, contributor guidelines, and entry list, please contact Marcia Merryman-Means: marcia@schlagergroup.com.

Editorial Board, Milestone Documents in World History

Christopher Blackwell
Furman University

Brian Bonhomme
Youngstown State University

Frank L. Chance
University of Pennsylvania

Eleanor Congdon
Youngstown State University

R. Hunt Davis
University of Florida

Ainslie T. Embree
Columbia University

Paul R. Goldin
University of Pennsylvania

Ronald Leprohon
University of Toronto

Thomas Metcalf
University of California, Berkeley

James A. Reilly
University of Toronto

Lawrence Waldron
St. John's University

___________
Neil Schlager
Founder and president
Schlager Group Inc.
Phone: 214-347-9469, ext. 801
Fax: 214-347-9469
E-mail: neil at schlagergroup.com
http://www.SchlagerGroup.com

CFP: Medieval World (encyclopedia) (no deadline noted)

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the editorial board, I invite writers to contribute one or
more articles to The Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Medieval
World. This four-volume set will be published by Facts On File in
conjunction with another four-volume set, The Encyclopedia of Society and
Culture in the Ancient World. Writing for the Medieval World set will take
place under the direction of the editor in chief, Pam Crabtree, with the
aid of a board of editorial advisers for separate regions of the world. I
am the board editor for the Asia and Pacific section.

The four-volume Medieval World set covers the fall of Rome to the start
of the Renaissance, which in Asia and Pacific terms would be from the mid
part of the first millennium A.D. to European contact. The entries are
arranged A to Z by 71 headwords, from "adornment" through "writing" and
including such topics as art, death and burial practices, education,
natural disasters, science, and trade and exchange. Each entry (headword)
is composed of an introduction that outlines the major developments in
chronological sequence, followed by subsections on five major regions:
Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, the Americas, and the Islamic World.
The regional subsections under most of the entry terms will be about 1,665
words in length. The regional subsections for fourteen major topics (such
as "art" and "social organization") will be covered in 4,000 words. The
set is meant for high-school or community-college use and for the general
public. Authors will be provided renumeration, depending on the length of
the article.

If you have an interest in participating, please write to the project
manager, Marcia Merryman Means, at marcia@schlagergroup.com. We also
welcome graduate student authors for these entries and would appreciate it
if you could pass on this message to any of your graduate students you
think might be interested.

Sincerely,

Dr. Laura Junker, Associate Professor of Anthropology,
University of Illinois at Chicago

CFP: Japan, Asia, History Encyclopedia Entries Wanted

Note: Encyclopedia entries are short and--assuming you've already developed a certain level of expertise on your particular area of interest/focus--not very difficult to do. A great way for a young scholar to get a line on her or his CV!

ABC-CLIO is in the process of developing a comprehensive 21-volume
Encyclopedia 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 area of Asia and Japan.


Compensation:

* Level 1: Up to 5,000 Words: All Level 1 contributors will have
their names associated with the entries they contribute, and will
receive access to the e-book version of the entire encyclopedia (list
price $1,800) for personal use.

* Level 2: 5,001 to 10,000 words: In addition to Level 1
compensation, Level 2 contributors will receive a credit of $500 toward
purchase of any ABC-CLIO e-book.

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

FNadis@abc-clio.com

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



Open topics [all articles are from 500 to 1500 words in length]:


Era 6 (1450 - 1770)


Theme 1: Environment and Population

Shaping the Land in Teahouse Japan (sidebar on Shoin Style and Sukiya
Gardens)

Cycles of Exploitation and Recovery in the Southeast Asian Environment
(sidebar on reforestation after Zhu Di)

The 'Columbian Exchange' in West Asia (sidebar: Maize Comes to India:
The 17th century Staple)

The 'Columbian Exchange' in East Asia (sidebar on maize, peanuts, and
manioc)

Safavid Shi'ism as Isolationist force in Central Asia

Imagining the Garden in Tokugawa Japan (sidebar: Hokusai and the
Development of Yukyo-e, Woodblock Prints)

Nature in the Ming Imagination (sidebar: Thien Kung Kai Wu, The
Exploitation of the Works of Nature)

The Double Structure of Japanese Life

Big Men Towns: Everyday Life in Southeast Asia's Port Villages



Theme 2: Society and Culture

Urbanization in Medieval India (sidebar on Balasore and its hinterlands)

The City as Containment Policy in East Asia (sidebar on Canton, or
Guangzhou, as city, factory, enclave)

Mandarin China: The Examination System under the Ming and Qing

Subjugating Japan's Peasants in Tokugawa Japan (sidebar on Naoe
Kanmetsugu (1619))

Private Sphere, Public Sphere in China (sidebar Wang Tao-k'un, Lives of
Eminent Merchants, 1500s)

Sanjue: The "Three Perfections" of Chinese Aesthetics (sidebar on Wu Li,
Pine Winds from Myriad Valleys, 18th century)

Japan: Haiku and Kabuki (sidebar: Basho, The Narrow Road of Oku)

Fusion Folk: Kroncong music in Indonesia (sidebar: Web Component?)

Mughal Aesthetics in India (sidebar on Shah Jahan (1628-1657) and the
Taj Mahal)

The Highest Form of Flattery: The Influence of European Art on Mughal
India

Persian-Hindu Encounters: The Influence of Islamic Art on Mughal India

The 'Columbian Exchange' with West Asia (sidebar on changes in West
Asian cuisine)

The 'Columbian Exchange' with East Asia (sidebar on changes in East,
South, and Central Asian cuisine)

The 'Columbian Exchange' with Southeast Asia (sidebar on changes in
Southeast Asian cuisine)

Indo-Southeast Asian Cultural Relations (sidebar on the Indo-Thai
experience)



Theme 3: Migration and Travel

Safavid Shi'ism as Isolationist Force in Central Asia

The Plano da India

A Great Wave: Chinese Migration Manchuria, Szechuan, Taiwan, and
Southwest



Theme 4: Politics and Statecraft

The Warring States Era in Japan (1467-1600) (sidebar on Evolution of
Bushido Ideology)

China's Turn Inward: Why Did the Middle Kingdom Isolate Itself? (sidebar
on Zhu Di and the Great Fire and the Forbidden City, 9 May 1421)

Muslim sultanates replace Hindu states in Sumatra and Java (1500s)

From Temple Builders to Port States: Centralized Control in Southeast
Asia

Mughal expansionism in Central Asia

Early British empire building in Central Asia (sidebar on The British in
Orissa, from the Mughals through the Battle of Buxor, 1764)



Theme 5: Economics and Trade

India's Textiles: Peasant Weaving and the Rise of Capitalism

A Single Whip: China's "Third Commercial Revolution" (sidebar on The
Single Whip Reform)

"The Cream of the Trade": The Indian Economy before the Mughals

Lynchpins in the East Asian Economy: Ryukyu and Malacca

"Life's So Affluent": Asia's Great Age of Commerce

The Achean Pepper Trade: Taking the Trade from India

Centralizing the Siberian Fur Trade

Western economic expansion in Central Asia (sidebar on Contacts between
Oriya merchants and Western traders (sidebar on Chi'en Lung's Letter
(1793))

Mughal Art for Western Styles

"To Please the Eyes of the Europeans": The Chinese Porcelain Trade
(sidebar on Ming polychrome porcelain, San Francisco Asian Art Museum)

"Pepper Country": Sixteenth-century Malabar India in the Global
Marketplace

Ruling the Tea Lanes: Shipping Tea to America


Theme 6: War and Diplomacy

Sunni-Shi'ite Conflict as Divisive Force in West Asia

China: The Mandate of Heaven (sidebar on Chi'en Lung's Letter (1793))

Handmaiden of Power: Religious Authority in East Asian Rule (sidebar on
Hamzah Fansuri, Poems)

Kejawen: Religious Resistance on Java

Laihua Diplomacy under Ming-Qing Rule (sidebar: "You are free to come
and be transformed")

The Puzzle House of the East (sidebar on Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit
Mission to China)

Siamese Diplomacy under Phra Narai

Russian Expansion into Siberia and Central Asia (sidebar on Yermak the
Conqueror)

Russian Expansion into the Pacific (sidebar on Vitus Bering and Russia's
Pacific Exploration (1725-1730, 1733-1742)

The Art and Literature of European Conquest in West Asia (sidebar on The
Meeting of the King of Kandy and Joris van Spilbergen (1605))


Theme 7: Religion and Thought

Sunni Islamization of through 16th century Mongolia and China (sidebar
on Consolidating Sunni Thought)

Japan and the Five Indias (sidebar on Gotenjiku zu)

The World Depicted in the Jambudvipa (sidebar on A Hindu-Jain-Buddhist
Worldview)

South Asia Imagines Europe (sidebar on "White in Colour and . . . Pants
of Irons")

The Rajavaliya, Ceylon (1506)

China Imagines the Outer Barbarians (sidebar on Gatian Theory)

In the Indian Manner: Europe Imagines Asia (sidebar on Englebert
Kaempfer, The History of Japan (1727))

East Asia Imagines Europe (sidebar on Fan-quei and Nambanjin)

Neo-Confucianism Emerges in Ming/Ching Thought (sidebar on Confucian
Thought Responds to Changing Conditions)

Japan: Tokagawa Confucianism (sidebar on Saikaku, The Life of an
Amorous Woman)

Cycles of Decline and Renewal in Buddhism (sidebar on Hakuin, The
Embossed Tea Kettle, Japan)

Cross and Crescent: Christianity and Islam in East Asia (sidebar on The
Babad Lombak)

Yi Hoe's World (Korean) (sidebar on Yi Hoe, Kangnido (1402; 1460 copy))

White Deer: Confucianism in Japan (sidebar on Yamazaki Ansai, Chu Hs's
Regulations for the White Deer School)

Sunni and Shi'ite Religious conflict in West Asia (sidebar on Sunni and
Shi'ite areas)

The Spread of the Hindu Maratha state

Neo-Confucianism as Ming/Ching ideology


Theme 8: Science and Technology

Koazheng: The Search for Evidence in China (sidebar on Copernicus in
China: Jesuit Teachings)

On European Time in Asia: Jesuit Reform of the Chinese Calendar (1640s)

Propagatio fidei per scientia: Matteo Ricci and Chinese Astronomy
(sidebar on Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Yuanjing shuo (On the
Telescope) (1626))

A Sound Like Thunder: The Revolution in Southeast Asian Military
Technology


Era 7 (1750 - 1914)


Theme 1: Environment and Population

Changing Patterns in Land Use in Colonial Asia

Urbanization in India under Colonial Rule

City Growth in East Asia: Hong Kong, Osaka, Tokyo, Shanghai

Asian Population Patterns, 1750-1914


Theme 2: Society and Culture

Hindu Critics of Traditional Indian Marriage: Rammohan Roy and
Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar

Family Law in Meiji Japan: The Civil Code of 1898 630

Chinese Merchants 1750-1914 1000

Chinese Peasants 1750-1914

Japanese Society in the Late Tokugawa Era

Government-Mandated Dietary Rules in Meiji Japan

Social Change in Meiji Japan

Women in Meiji Japan

The Ending of Sati in India

Education in Colonial Southeast Asia

Baseball in Meiji Japan and Latin America

The Japanese Cult of the West in the Meiji Period

French School of the Far East


Theme 3: Migration and Travel

Religious Pilgrimage and the Railroad in India

Explorations in Central and Southwest Asia


Theme 4: Politics and Statecraft

Japanese Politics in the Eighteenth Century

The Founding of the Indian National Congress

Reform and Innovation in Thailand


Theme 5: Economics and Trade

Indian Agriculture under British Rule

Chinese Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century

The Decline of the Indian Cotton Industry in India

Farming in Meiji Japan

Industrialization in Meiji Japan

Indian Slavery in the Colonial Era

China's Currency Problems in the Nineteenth Century

Consumerism in Late Qing China

Consumerism in Late Tokugawa and Meiji Japan


Theme 6: War and Diplomacy

The Japanese Military before the Meiji Restoration

Anglo-French wars in India 1756-1790s


Theme 7: Religion and Thought

Wahhabism in India

Aligarh Movement in India

Traditionalists and Modernists in Late Nineteenth-Century India

The New Text Movement in China

The End of Official Confucianism in China

Religions and Rebellion: the White Lotus and Taiping Rebellions

Late Tokugawa Japanese Confucianism


Theme 8: Science and Technology

Canal Building in Asia

Scientific and Technological Education in Meiji Japan


Era 8 (1900 - 1945)


Theme 2: Society and Culture

Indian Nationalism



Theme 3: Migration and Travel

Trends toward Urbanization: Asia and Oceania



Theme 4: Politics and Statecraft

Socialist movements in South Asia

Direct Rule (Burma as example)

Socialist Movements in South Asia

Official and nationalistic art in Asia and Oceania (e.g., anti-Japanese
arts in Korea; etc.)



Theme 5: Economics and Trade

Great Depression - South Asia



Theme 6: War and Diplomacy

Quit India Movement


Theme 7: Thought and Religion

Traditionalism vs. modernism in Asia and Oceania

Spread of Asiatic Religions


Era 9 (1945 - Present)

Theme 2: Society and Culture

Class Structure in post-Soviet Russia, E. Europe, C. Asia

Changing Class Structure in Post-Maoist China

Class and Caste in India

Family Planning in India, China

Nationalized Healthcare in Europe, Japan

Theme 3: Travel and Migration

Guest Worker Programs and Migration (W. Eur, U.S., Mid East, Asia)


Theme 4: Politics and Statecraft

Nomadic Groups: Africa, Asia



Theme 6: War and Diplomacy:

Cold War in South Asia

Pacifist governments: Japan and Costa Rica

Japanese peace movement

Ethnic Cleansing in Indonesia