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Unlike other historical association, any historian in the United States can become a member of the AHA. Basically, every historical is represented in the AHA and it is the largest historical association in the United States. Therefore, the AHA awards a massive number of awards to historians. In 2016, the American Historical Association (AHA) awarded 24 book prizes.   
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[[File:Global_Time.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|<i>The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950</i> by Vanessa Ogle]] 
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The American Historical Association is the largest and most comprehensive history society in the United States. Basically, every flavor of history is represented in the AHA. Unsurprisingly, the AHA awards a massive number of prizes to historians. In 2016, the American Historical Association (AHA) awarded 24 book prizes.   
  
While the list is large, it is a great place to find great new history books on a lot of different topics. The breadth of subject of the books on the AHA prizes is remarkable.  
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While the list is long, it is a great place to find great new history books on a lot of different topics. The breadth of subject of the books on the AHA prizes is remarkable.
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===The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize===
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Awarded to an author for a book on European history from ancient times to 1815.
  
===The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in European history from ancient times to 1815===
 
 
Vittoria Di Palma, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300197799/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300197799&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e7f7f4705241e297fd51a15f966fccee Wasteland: A History]</i> (Yale Univ. Press, 2014)
 
Vittoria Di Palma, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300197799/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300197799&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e7f7f4705241e297fd51a15f966fccee Wasteland: A History]</i> (Yale Univ. Press, 2014)
  
===The George Louis Beer Prize in European international history since 1895===
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===The George Louis Beer Prize===
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Awarded to an author for the best new book on covering European international history since 1895.
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Vanessa Ogle, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674286146/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674286146&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=23e636f6a02ff73145ffc405bc6f2ca4 The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950]</i> (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)
 
Vanessa Ogle, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674286146/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674286146&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=23e636f6a02ff73145ffc405bc6f2ca4 The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950]</i> (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)
  
===The Jerry Bentley Prize in world history===
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===The Jerry Bentley Prize===
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Awarded for the best new book in World History.
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Michael Goebel, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107421357/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1107421357&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e26ca82eaa53eef0164a527fbf68c52d Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism]</i> (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015)
 
Michael Goebel, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107421357/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1107421357&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e26ca82eaa53eef0164a527fbf68c52d Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism]</i> (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015)
  
===The Albert J. Beveridge Award on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada, from 1492 to the present===
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===The Albert J. Beveridge Award===
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Given to an author who has written the best new history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada, from 1492 to the present.
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Ann Twinam, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804750939/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0804750939&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=92eb6a008af900bd4344c1a36a859dc9 Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies]</i> (Stanford Univ. Press, 2015)
 
Ann Twinam, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804750939/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0804750939&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=92eb6a008af900bd4344c1a36a859dc9 Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies]</i> (Stanford Univ. Press, 2015)
  
===The Paul Birdsall Prize in European military and strategic history since 1870===
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===The Paul Birdsall Prize===
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Awarded to the author of the best new book covering European military and strategic history since 1870.
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Bruno Cabanes, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107604834/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1107604834&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=bee3a43c80b8194beca28fba0dc57d26 The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924]</i> (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015)
 
Bruno Cabanes, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107604834/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1107604834&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=bee3a43c80b8194beca28fba0dc57d26 The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924]</i> (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015)
  
===The James Henry Breasted Prize in any field of history prior to CE 1000===
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===The James Henry Breasted Prize===
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The Breasted Prize is awarded to best new book covering any field of history prior to CE 1000.
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Hina Azam, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K0TMEAO/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B01K0TMEAO&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=1838bae85a252a01b48c073399bb702b Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure]</i> (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015)
 
Hina Azam, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K0TMEAO/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B01K0TMEAO&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=1838bae85a252a01b48c073399bb702b Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure]</i> (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015)
  
===The Albert B. Corey Prize in the history of Canadian-American relations or the history of both countries===
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===The Albert B. Corey Prize===
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This award is given to the best new history book examining Canadian-American relations or the history of both countries.
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[[File:The_Peoples_network.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|The People's Network by Robert MacDougall]]
 
Robert MacDougall, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812245695/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0812245695&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=1c798dae17786f798cb0b786cf01463d The People’s Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age]</i> (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
 
Robert MacDougall, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812245695/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0812245695&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=1c798dae17786f798cb0b786cf01463d The People’s Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age]</i> (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
  
===The John K. Fairbank Prize for East Asian history since 1800===
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===The John K. Fairbank Prize===
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Awarded to the historian with the best book for East Asian history since 1800.
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Barak Kushner, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674728912/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674728912&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=284a7f3dfc78317614349c6ffce46b6f Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice]</i> (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)
 
Barak Kushner, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674728912/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674728912&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=284a7f3dfc78317614349c6ffce46b6f Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice]</i> (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)
  
===The Morris D. Forkosch Prize in the field of British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485===
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===The Morris D. Forkosch Prize===
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Given to the best new book in the field of British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485.
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R. F. Foster, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393082792/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393082792&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=014a9f89554b3f6d99b6be7882cec5af Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923]</i> (W.W. Norton & Company, 2015)
 
R. F. Foster, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393082792/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393082792&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=014a9f89554b3f6d99b6be7882cec5af Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923]</i> (W.W. Norton & Company, 2015)
  
===The Leo Gershoy Award in the fields of 17th- and 18th-century western European history===
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===The Leo Gershoy Award===
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This prize goes to the best book in the fields of 17th- and 18th-century western European history.
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Alexandra Shepard, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199600791/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0199600791&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=89482aa716297b1563299656960ad937 Accounting for Oneself: Worth, Status, and the Social Order in Early Modern England]</i> (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015)
 
Alexandra Shepard, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199600791/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0199600791&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=89482aa716297b1563299656960ad937 Accounting for Oneself: Worth, Status, and the Social Order in Early Modern England]</i> (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015)
  
===The Clarence H. Haring Prize for a Latin American who has published the most outstanding book in Latin American history during the preceding five years===
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===The Clarence H. Haring Prize===
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Awarded to a Latin American historian who has published the most outstanding book in Latin American history during the preceding five years.
 
Antonio García de León, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/607502087X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=607502087X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=d83ceec4da1fde3059a8adc1cf0efb26 Tierra Adentro, Mar en Fuera: El Puerto de Veracruz y su Litoral a Sotavento, 1519–1821]</i> (Fondo de Cultura Economica USA, 2011)
 
Antonio García de León, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/607502087X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=607502087X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=d83ceec4da1fde3059a8adc1cf0efb26 Tierra Adentro, Mar en Fuera: El Puerto de Veracruz y su Litoral a Sotavento, 1519–1821]</i> (Fondo de Cultura Economica USA, 2011)
  
===The Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean history===
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===The Friedrich Katz Prize===
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Given to the historian with the best new book in Latin American and Caribbean history.
 
Edward Beatty, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520284909/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0520284909&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=02f485a385ac83a71b67e6949e1bb804 Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico]</i> (Univ. of California Press, 2015)
 
Edward Beatty, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520284909/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0520284909&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=02f485a385ac83a71b67e6949e1bb804 Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico]</i> (Univ. of California Press, 2015)
  
===The Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for women’s history and/or feminist theory===
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===The Joan Kelly Memorial Prize===
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Awarded for the best new book in women’s history and/or feminist theory.
 
Keely Stauter-Halsted, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801454190/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0801454190&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=57bd8247144d627206947c3a6db1e5bb The Devil’s Chain: Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland]</i> (Cornell Univ. Press, 2015)
 
Keely Stauter-Halsted, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801454190/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0801454190&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=57bd8247144d627206947c3a6db1e5bb The Devil’s Chain: Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland]</i> (Cornell Univ. Press, 2015)
  
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===The Littleton-Griswold Prize in US law and society, broadly defined===
 
===The Littleton-Griswold Prize in US law and society, broadly defined===
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[[File:Border_Law.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|<i>Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood</i> by Deborah A. Rosen]]
 
Deborah A. Rosen, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674967615/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674967615&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=5a832ff8ac413c7d57c487d0accb4f4c Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood]</i> (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)
 
Deborah A. Rosen, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674967615/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674967615&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=5a832ff8ac413c7d57c487d0accb4f4c Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood]</i> (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)
  
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===The George L. Mosse Prize in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since 1500===
 
===The George L. Mosse Prize in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since 1500===
Thomas W. Laqueur, The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains (Princeton Univ. Press, 2015)
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Thomas W. Laqueur, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691157782/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0691157782&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=c91e58ae0e5ed73c2b9d6d3e9295b5fe The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains]</i> (Princeton Univ. Press, 2015)
  
 
===The James A. Rawley Prize for the integration of Atlantic worlds before the 20th century===
 
===The James A. Rawley Prize for the integration of Atlantic worlds before the 20th century===
Tamar Herzog (Harvard Univ.) for Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)
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[[File:Frontiers_of_Possession.jpg|thumbnail|250px|<i>Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas</i> by Tamar Herzog]]
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Tamar Herzog, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674735382/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674735382&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=20f74239826f63ccd660e0cb77289d7d Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas]</i> (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)
  
 
===The Premio del Rey in the field of early Spanish history===
 
===The Premio del Rey in the field of early Spanish history===
Núria Silleras-Fernández (Univ. of Colorado Boulder) for Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (Cornell Univ. Press, 2015)
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Núria Silleras-Fernández, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013DVDAFO/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B013DVDAFO&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=18d6d8dcd8dbe3b6fb86fbaeb4ab0c85 Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia]</i> (Cornell Univ. Press, 2015)
  
 
===The John F. Richards Prize for South Asian history===
 
===The John F. Richards Prize for South Asian history===
Nayanjot Lahiri (Ashoka Univ.) for Ashoka in Ancient India (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)
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Nayanjot Lahiri, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674057775/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674057775&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ab93217a668322f34e03fe0a5b5fccdc Ashoka in Ancient India]</i> (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)
  
 
===The Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in the history of the Jewish diaspora===
 
===The Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in the history of the Jewish diaspora===
Paul Lerner (Univ. of Southern California) for The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880–1940 (Cornell Univ. Press, 2015)
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Paul Lerner, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VWRJ48E/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00VWRJ48E&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=cc0bfa6aaab8319e55b9aefc2e68abfe The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880–1940] (Cornell Univ. Press, 2015)
  
 
===The Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history===
 
===The Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history===
Carina E. Ray (Brandeis Univ.) for Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana (Ohio Univ. Press, 2015)
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Carina E. Ray, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0821421808/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0821421808&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e957e21324b5bc282b827defa61420d3 Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana]</i> (Ohio Univ. Press, 2015)
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==Related DailyHistory.org Articles==
 
==Related DailyHistory.org Articles==
 
*[[2016 Organization of American Historians Book Awards]]
 
*[[2016 Organization of American Historians Book Awards]]

Latest revision as of 21:16, 22 November 2018

The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950 by Vanessa Ogle

The American Historical Association is the largest and most comprehensive history society in the United States. Basically, every flavor of history is represented in the AHA. Unsurprisingly, the AHA awards a massive number of prizes to historians. In 2016, the American Historical Association (AHA) awarded 24 book prizes.

While the list is long, it is a great place to find great new history books on a lot of different topics. The breadth of subject of the books on the AHA prizes is remarkable.

The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

Awarded to an author for a book on European history from ancient times to 1815.

Vittoria Di Palma, Wasteland: A History (Yale Univ. Press, 2014)

The George Louis Beer Prize

Awarded to an author for the best new book on covering European international history since 1895.

Vanessa Ogle, The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950 (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)

The Jerry Bentley Prize

Awarded for the best new book in World History.

Michael Goebel, Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015)

The Albert J. Beveridge Award

Given to an author who has written the best new history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada, from 1492 to the present.

Ann Twinam, Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies (Stanford Univ. Press, 2015)

The Paul Birdsall Prize

Awarded to the author of the best new book covering European military and strategic history since 1870.

Bruno Cabanes, The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015)

The James Henry Breasted Prize

The Breasted Prize is awarded to best new book covering any field of history prior to CE 1000.

Hina Azam, Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015)

The Albert B. Corey Prize

This award is given to the best new history book examining Canadian-American relations or the history of both countries.

The People's Network by Robert MacDougall

Robert MacDougall, The People’s Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)

The John K. Fairbank Prize

Awarded to the historian with the best book for East Asian history since 1800.

Barak Kushner, Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)

The Morris D. Forkosch Prize

Given to the best new book in the field of British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485.

R. F. Foster, Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923 (W.W. Norton & Company, 2015)

The Leo Gershoy Award

This prize goes to the best book in the fields of 17th- and 18th-century western European history.

Alexandra Shepard, Accounting for Oneself: Worth, Status, and the Social Order in Early Modern England (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015)

The Clarence H. Haring Prize

Awarded to a Latin American historian who has published the most outstanding book in Latin American history during the preceding five years. Antonio García de León, Tierra Adentro, Mar en Fuera: El Puerto de Veracruz y su Litoral a Sotavento, 1519–1821 (Fondo de Cultura Economica USA, 2011)

The Friedrich Katz Prize

Given to the historian with the best new book in Latin American and Caribbean history. Edward Beatty, Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico (Univ. of California Press, 2015)

The Joan Kelly Memorial Prize

Awarded for the best new book in women’s history and/or feminist theory. Keely Stauter-Halsted, The Devil’s Chain: Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland (Cornell Univ. Press, 2015)

The Martin A. Klein Prize in African history

Nancy Rose Hunt, A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo (Duke Univ. Press, 2015)

The Waldo G. Leland Prize offered every five years for the most outstanding reference tool in the field of history

Father Peter J. Powell, editor, In Sun’s Likeness and Power: Cheyenne Accounts of Shield and Tipi Heraldry, 2 vols., by James Mooney (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2013)

The Littleton-Griswold Prize in US law and society, broadly defined

Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood by Deborah A. Rosen

Deborah A. Rosen, Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)

The J. Russell Major Prize for French history

Ethan B. Katz, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)

The Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian history or Italian-American relations

Stefano Dall’Aglio and the late Donald Weinstein, translator, The Duke’s Assassin: Exile and Death of Lorenzino de’ Medici (Yale Univ. Press, 2015)

The George L. Mosse Prize in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since 1500

Thomas W. Laqueur, The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains (Princeton Univ. Press, 2015)

The James A. Rawley Prize for the integration of Atlantic worlds before the 20th century

Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas by Tamar Herzog

Tamar Herzog, Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)

The Premio del Rey in the field of early Spanish history

Núria Silleras-Fernández, Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (Cornell Univ. Press, 2015)

The John F. Richards Prize for South Asian history

Nayanjot Lahiri, Ashoka in Ancient India (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)

The Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in the history of the Jewish diaspora

Paul Lerner, The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880–1940 (Cornell Univ. Press, 2015)

The Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history

Carina E. Ray, Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana (Ohio Univ. Press, 2015)