World History Association Book Prize
Encyclopedia
World History Association Book Prize is an annual book prize
given by the World History Association since 1999. It "recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of world history
". The prize is $500.
Literary award
A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing . There are also awards...
given by the World History Association since 1999. It "recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of world history
World History
World History, Global History or Transnational history is a field of historical study that emerged as a distinct academic field in the 1980s. It examines history from a global perspective...
". The prize is $500.
Winners
Past winners:- 2011: Jane Burbank and Frederick CooperFrederick CooperFrederick Cooper is an American historian who specializes in colonialization, decolonialization and African history. Cooper received his Ph.D from Yale University in 1974 and is currently professor of history at New York University....
, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference - 2010: John Chavez, Beyond Nations: Evolving Homelands in the North Atlantic World
- 2009: Co-Winner: Adam McKeown from Columbia University with his book Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders, 1834-1929 and Co-Winner: Joachim RadkauJoachim RadkauJoachim Radkau is a German historian.- Life :Son of a Protestant priest, he studied history in Münster, Berlin and Hamburg from 1963 to 1968. He was influenced e.g. by Fritz Fischer. His doctorate 1970 treated the role of German immigrants 1933-45 on Franklin D. Roosevelt...
, Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment - 2008: Stuart Banner, Possessing the Pacific Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska
- 2007: Felipe Fernández-ArmestoFelipe Fernández-ArmestoFelipe Fernández-Armesto is a British historian and author of several popular works of history.He was born in London, his father was the Spanish journalist Felipe Fernández Armesto and his mother was Betty Millan de Fernandez-Armesto, a British-born journalist and co-founder and editor of The...
, Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration - 2006: No prize
- 2005: David ChristianDavid Christian (historian)Dr. David Gilbert Christian is an Anglo-American historian.Christian was born in Brooklyn, New York, to British and American parents. He grew up in Africa and in England, where he earned his B.A. and Ph.D. at Oxford University....
, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History - 2004: Victor Lieberman, Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800 – 1830, Vol. I: “Integration on the Mainland”
- 2003: Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900
- 2002: Mike DavisMike Davis (scholar)Mike Davis is an American Marxist social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California.-Life:...
, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World - 2001: Co-Winner: John Robert McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of The Twentieth Century World and Co-Winner: Kenneth PomeranzKenneth PomeranzKenneth Pomeranz is the of History at the University of California, Irvine in the US. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1980 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1988, where he was a student of Jonathan Spence.-Research:...
, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy - 2000: James McClellan III and Harold Dorn, Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction
- 1999: Andre Gunder FrankAndre Gunder FrankAndre Gunder Frank was a German-American economic historian and sociologist who promoted "dependency theory" after 1970 and "World Systems Theory" after 1984...
, Re-Orient: Global Economy in the Asian Age
External links
- World History Association Book Prize, official website.