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Stefania Gallini Wins Prestigious Book Prize

Stefania Gallini wins the 2010 Elinor Melville Prize for Latin American Environmental History.

13.10.2010

Stefania Gallini, has won the 2010 Elinor Melville Prize for Latin American Environmental History for her book Una historia ambiental del café en Guatemala: La Costa Cuca entre 1830 y 1902. The Melville prize was established in 2007 through a bequest from Elinor Kerr Melville. It is awarded annually to the best book published in the previous year on Latin American environmental history by The Conference on Latin American History.

Gallini’s study is a provocative analysis of the coffee revolution in Guatemala between 1830 and 1902. The monograph was published by AVANSCO in 2009.

Elinor Melville was a professor of history at York University. She wrote A Plague of Sheep, an influential work of environmental history which dealt with the impact of the importation of European plants and animals on 16th century Mexico.