The George Louis Beer Prize
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2011 Advertising empire : race and visual culture in imperial Germany by David Ciarlo; Shattering empires : the clash and collapse of the Ottoman and Russian empires, 1908–1918 by Michael A. Reynolds
2010 Between states : the Transylvanian question and the European idea during World War II by Holly Case
2009 The bitter road to freedom : a new history of the liberation of Europe by William I. Hitchcok
2008 For the soul of mankind : the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War by Melvyn P. Leffler
2007 An empire divided : religion, republicanism, and the making of French colonialism, 1880–1914 by J. P. Daughton
2006 Assuming the burden : Europe and the American commitment to war in Vietnam by Mark Atwood Lawrence
2005 Defending the rights of others : the great powers, the Jews, and international minority protection, 1878–1938 by Carole Fink
2004 A biography of no place : from ethnic borderland to Soviet heartland by Kate Brown
2003 The reconstruction of nations : Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 by Timothy Snyder
2002 A diplomatic revolution : Algeria's fight for independence and the origins of the post-Cold War era by Matthew Connelly
2001 Captive university : the Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish higher education, 1945–1956 by John Connelly
2000 A constructed peace : the making of the European settlement, 1945–1963 by Marc Trachtenberg
1999 Atlantic crossings : social politics in a progressive age by Daniel T. Rodgers
1998 Divided memory : the Nazi past in the two Germanys by Jeffrey Herf
1997 The Cold War and Soviet insecurity : the Stalin years by Vojtech Mastny
1996 No award
1995 Visions of modernity : American business and the modernization of Germany by Mary Nolan
1994 A world at arms : a global history of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg
1993 British and American commercial relations with Soviet Russia, 1918–1924 by Christine A. White
1992 The popular front and Central Europe : the dilemmas of French impotence, 1918–1940 by Nicole T. Jordan
1991 Coal, steel, and the rebirth of Europe, 1945-1955 : the Germans and French from Ruhr conflict to economic community by John Gillingham
1990 Between Churchill and Stalin : the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the origins of the Grand Alliance by Steven Merritt Miner
1989 The twilight of the French eastern alliances, 1926–1936 : French-Czechoslovak-Polish Relations from Locarno to the remilitarization of the Rhineland by Piotr S. Wandycz
1988 The Marshall Plan : America, Britain, and the reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952 by Michael J. Hogan
1987 Syria and the French mandate : the politics of Arab nationalism by Philip S. Khoury
1986 No award
1985 The Genoa Conference : European diplomacy, 1921–22 by Carole Fink
1984 The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945–1951 : Arab nationalism, the United States, and postwar imperialism by William Roger Louis
1983 Poland's place in Europe : General Sikorski and the origin of the Oder-Neisse Line, 1939–1943 by Sarah M. Terry
1982 Mussolini unleashed, 1939–1941 : politics and strategy in fascist Italy’s last war by MacGregor Knox
1981 Innocent abroad : Belgium at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 by Sally Marks
1980 No award
1979 German rearmament and the West, 1932–1933 by Edward W. Bennett
1978 No award
1977 The end of French predominance in Europe : the financial crisis of 1924 and the adoption of the Dawes plan by Stephen A. Schuker
1976 Recasting bourgeois Europe : stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the decade after World War I by Charles S. Maier
1975 No award
1974 No award
1973 No award
1972 Locarno diplomacy; Germany and the West, 1925-1929 by Jon Jacobson
1971 The foreign policy of Hitler's Germany; diplomatic revolution in Europe, 1933–36 by Gerhard Weinberg
1970 The politics of grand strategy; Britain and France prepare for war, 1904–1914 by Samuel R. Williamson, Jr.
1969 Anglo-Soviet relations, 1917-1921 : volume 2 : Britain and the Russian Civil War, Nov. 1918–Feb. 1920 by Richard H. Ullman
1968 No award
1967 The Volunteer Army and Allied intervention in South Russia, 1917-1921; a study in the politics and diplomacy of the Russian Civil War by George A. Brinkley; French communism in the making, 1914-1924 by Robert Wohl
1966 No award
1965 British strategy and politics, 1914-1918 by Paul Spencer Guinn, Jr.
1964 Yugoslavia at the Paris Peace Conference by Ivo J. Lederer; Land and power : British and Allied policy on Germany’s frontiers, 1916–19 by Harold I. Nelson
1963 Germany and the diplomacy of the financial crisis, 1931 by Edward W. Bennett; The path to European Union, from the Marshall plan to the Common Market by Hans A. Schmitt
1962 France and her eastern allies, 1919–1925 by Piotr S. Wandycz
1961 Mussolini's enemies : the Italian anti-Fascist resistance by Charles F. Delzell
1960 Defeated leaders : the political fate of Caillaux, Jouvenel, and Tardieu by Rudolph Binion
1959 The World War and American isolation, 1914–1917 by Ernest R. May
1958 The United States and east central Europe, 1914-1918 by Vincent Mamatey
1957 German rule in Russia, 1941–1945 : a study of occupation policies by Alexander Dallin
1956 Mitteleuropa in German thought and action, 1815–1945 by Henry Cord Meyer
1955 The formation of the Soviet Union, communism and nationalism, 1917-1923 by Richard Pipes (Rev. ed. here)
1954 Serbia between East and West; the events of 1903–1908 by Wayne S. Vucinich
1953 Woodrow Wilson and the Far East; the diplomacy of the Shantung question by Russell Fifield
1952 Peace in their time; the origins of the Kellogg-Briand pact by Robert H. Ferrell
1951 No award
1950 No award
1949 No award
1948 No award
1947 No award
1946 No award
1945 No award
1944 No award
1943 British enterprise in Nigeria by Arthur Norton Cook
1942 No award
1941 The anatomy of British Sea Power : a history of British naval policy in the pre-dreadnought era, 1880-1905 by Arthur J. Marder
1940 The American impact on Great Britain, 1898–1914; a study of the United States in world history by Richard Heathcote Heindel
1939 The background of anti-English feeling in Germany, 1890–1902 by Pauline Relyea Anderson
1938 Italy at the Paris Peace Conference by René Albrecht-Carrié
1937 The career of Théophile Declassé by Charles Wesley Porter
1936 No award
1935 No award
1934 Great Britain and the German trade rivalry, 1875–1914 by Ross J. S. Hoffman
1933 China's foreign relations, 1917–1931 by Robert Thomas Pollard
1932 Austro-German diplomatic relations, 1908–1914 by Oswald H. Wedel
1931 Germany and the diplomatic revolution : a study in diplomacy and the press, 1904–1906 by O. J. Hale
1930 The coming of the war, 1914 by Bernadotte Everly Schmitt
1929 Fashoda, the incident and its diplomatic setting by Morrison Beall Giffen
1928 The origins of the World War by Sidney B. Fay
1927 No award
1926 No award
1925 Southern Albania or Northern Epirus in European International Affairs, 1912–1923 by Edith P. Stickney
1924 The foreign policies of soviet Russia by Alfred L. P. Dennis
1923 The mandatory system : its historical background and relation to the new imperialism by Walter Russell Batsell; Turkey, the great powers, and the Bagdad railway; a study in imperialism by Edward Mead Earle (online version)