The Hines Prize is awarded annually for the best first book relating to the Carolina Lowcountry and/or Atlantic World. The prize includes a $1,000 cash award and consideration for publication by the University of South Carolina Press. Manuscripts are eligible for the 2017 prize if submitted to the CLAW Director Simon Lewis by May 15. Previous winners since 2003 have explored topics such as plantation overseers, Charleston's waterfront labor, Jewish architecture, African martial arts, and regional formation in North Carolina. The 2015 winner was Dr. Huw David for his manuscript on the 18th century trading networks between South Carolina and Great Britain.

1. HINES PRIZE 2017:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Hines Prize is awarded to the best first book relating to any aspect of the
Carolina Lowcountry and/or the Atlantic World. The prize carries a cash
award of $1,000 and preferential consideration by the University of South
Carolina Press for the CLAW Program's book series. If you have a manuscript
on a topic pertaining to the Carolina Lowcountry and/or Atlantic World,
please send a copy to CLAW Director Simon Lewis at-
leiwss@cofc.edu before May 15, 2017. Graduate students are also eligible to
compete for the Hines Prize if they have a relevant manuscript.
Previous winners of the Hines Prize are as follows:
 2013 – Dr. Tristan Stubbs – The Plantation Overseers of Eighteenth-Century Virginia,
South Carolina, and Georgia
 2011 - Dr. Michael D. Thompson - In Working on the Dock of the Bay: Labor and Life
along Charleston's Waterfront, 1783-1861.
 2009 - Barry Stiefel - Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World: A Social and Architectural
History.
 2007 - T.J. Desch-Obi - Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Art
Traditions in the Atlantic World.
 2005 - Nicholas Michael Butler - Votaries of Apollo: The St. Cecilia Society and the
Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766-1820.
 2003 - Bradford Wood - This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower
Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725-1775.
The 2015 Hines Prize winner was Dr. Huw David, for his book-manuscript entitled The Atlantic at Work: Britain
and South Carolina’s Trading Networks, c. 1730 to 1790. Dr David’s manuscript, deriving from his doctoral thesis,
presents a compendious history of the trade relations between South Carolina and Great Britain in the eighteenth
century, both in the decades leading up to the Revolutionary War and immediately afterwards. Using a collective
biography of two dozen “Carolina traders,” David’s study offers new insights into the political economy of Carolina
trade with Great Britain and its impact on Atlantic politics in the Revolutionary era. David’s study reveals how these
men’s trading activity initially acted as a stabilising force but, from the 1760s, aggravated intra-imperial discord.
After the Revolution, David argues, Carolinians exercised greater commercial discretion than contemporaries and
historians have appreciated. Dr David’s work challenges contentions of South Carolina’s continuing commercial
subservience to Britain.