Fraenkel Prize
Commendation
Wiener Library
National Best Books 2008 Awards
Finalist (Business - Motivational category)
USA Book News
Wallace K. Ferguson Prize
Honorable Mention
Canadian Historical Association
James Willard Hurst Prize in Sociolegal History
Co-winner
Law and Society Association
Vitor Nunes Leal Prize
Brazilian Political Science Association
Best Book in Non-North American Urban History
Urban History Association
AAAS Book Award
Honorable Mention
Association for Asian American Studies
Prix Duc d'Arenberg/Duke d'Arenberg History Prize
Arenberg Archives and Cultural Centre
AAAS Book Award
Honorable Mention
Association for Asian American Studies
Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize
Modern Language Association
MLA Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography
Modern Language Association
René Wellek Prize
Honorable Mention
American Comparative Literature Association