Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award and Henry A. Wallace Award

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2017
Theodore Saloutos Award
Agrarian crossings : reformers and the remaking of the U.S. and Mexican countryside by Tore C. Olsson
Henry A. Wallace Award
Cattle in the backlands : Mato Grosso and the evolution of ranching in the Brazilian tropics by Robert W. Wilcox

2016
Theodore Saloutos Award
You can't eat freedom : Southerners and social justice after the Civil Rights Movement by Greta de Jong
Henry A. Wallace Award
Collecting food, cultivating people : subsistence and society in Central Africa by Kathryn M. de Luna

2015
Theodore Saloutos Award
Planning democracy : agrarian intellectuals and the intended New Deal by Jess Gilbert
Henry A. Wallace Award
Resettling the range : animals, ecologies, and human communities in British Columbia by John Thistle

2014
Theodore Saloutos Book Award
A golden weed : tobacco and environment in the Piedmont South by Drew Swanson
Henry A. Wallace Award
Works in progress : plans and realities on Soviet farms, 1930-1964 by Jenny Leigh Smith

2013
Theodore Saloutos Book Award
Standing their ground : small farmers in North Carolina since the Civil War by Adrienne Monteith Petty
Henry A. Wallace Award
Guano and the opening of the Pacific world : a global ecological history by Gregory Cushman

2012
Theodore Saloutos Book Award
Putting the barn before the house : women and family farming in early-twentieth-century New York by Grey Osterud
Henry A. Wallace Award
A country merchant, 1495–1520 : trading and farming at the end of the Middle Ages by Christopher Dyer

2011
Theodore Saloutos Book Award
Braceros : migrant citizens and transnational subjects in the postwar United States and Mexico by Deborah Cohen
Henry A. Wallace Award
The institutional framework of Russian serfdom by Tracy Dennison

2010
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award
The color of the land : race, nation, and the politics of landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 by David A. Chang
Henry A. Wallace Award
The deepest wounds : a labor and environmental history of sugar in Northeast Brazil by Thomas D. Rogers

2009
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award
Growing American rubber : strategic plants and the politics of national security by Mark Finlay

2008
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award
Trucking country : the road to America's Wal-mart economy by Shane Hamilton

2007
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award
Bound in twine : the history and ecology of the henequen-wheat complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950 by Sterling Evans

2006
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award
Plantation enterprise in colonial South Carolina by S. Max Edelson

2005
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award
On the Great Plains : agriculture and environment by Geoff Cunfer

2004
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award
The Great Meadow : farmers and the land in colonial Concord by Brian Donahue

2003
Theodore Saloutos Award
Every farm a factory : the industrial ideal in American agriculture by Deborah Fitzgerald

2002
Theodore Saloutos Award
Farm, shop, landing : the rise of a market society in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1860 by Martin Bruegel

2001
Theodore Saloutos Award
Deep Souths : Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island society in the age of segregation by William Harris

2000
Theodore Saloutos Award
Land and freedom : rural society, popular protest, and party politics in antebellum New York by Reeve Huston

1999
Theodore Saloutos Award
Of cabbages and Kings County : agriculture and the formation of modern Brooklyn by Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias

1998
Theodore Saloutos Award
Cutting into the meatpacking line : workers and change in the rural Midwest by Deborah Fink

1997
Theodore Saloutos Award
The minds of the West : ethnocultural evolution in the rural Middle West, 1830-1917 by Jon Gjerde

1996
Theodore Saloutos Award
Strawberry fields : politics, class, and work in California agriculture by Miriam J. Wells

1995
Theodore Saloutos Award
Transforming rural life : dairying families and agricultural change, 1820-1885 by Sally McMurry

1994
Theodore Saloutos Award
One South or many? : plantation belt and upcountry in Civil War-era Tennessee by Robert Tracy McKenzie

1991
Theodore Saloutos Award
From new day to New Deal : American farm policy from Hoover to Roosevelt, 1929-1933 by David E. Hamilton

1990
Theodore Saloutos Award
Prevailing over time : ethnic adjustment on the Kansas prairies, 1875-1925 by D. Aidan McQuillan

1989
Theodore Saloutos Award
The American backwoods frontier : an ethnic and ecological interpretation by Terry Jordan and Matti Kaups

1988
Theodore Saloutos Award
First the seed : the political economy of plant biotechnology, 1492-2000 by Jack Kloppenburg, Jr.

1987
Theodore Saloutos Award
To their own soil : agriculture in the Antebellum North by Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman

1986
Theodore Saloutos Award
This bitter-sweet soil : the Chinese in California agriculture, 1860-1910 by Sucheng Chan

1985
Theodore Saloutos Award
Tobacco culture : the mentality of the great Tidewater planters on the eve of Revolution by T.H. Breen

1984
Theodore Saloutos Award
Cotton fields no more : southern agriculture, 1865-1980 by Gilbert Fite

1983
Theodore Saloutos Award
The reshaping of plantation society : the Natchez District, 1860-80 by Michael Wayne

1982
Theodore Saloutos Award
The old country school : the story of rural education in the Middle West by Wayne Fuller

1968
Book Award
Henry Cantwell Wallace as Secretary of Agriculture, 1921-1924 by Donald L. Winters

1967
Book Award
Gifford Pinchot, private and public forester by Harold T. Pinkett

1964
Book Award
The grain trade in the Old Northwest by John G. Clark

1963
Book Award
The forgotten farmers; the story of sharecroppers in the New Deal by David E. Conrad

1961
Book Award
The Mexican Mesta : the administration of ranching in colonial Mexico by William Dusenberry

1960
Book Award
The Farm Bureau and the New Deal; a study of the making of national farm policy, 1933-40 by Christiana McFadyen Campbell

1958
Book Award
God speed the plow; the coming of steam cultivation to Great Britain by Clark Spence

1957
Annual Book Award
Letters from a Texas ranch, written in the years 1860 and 1867 by George Wilkins Kendall to Henry Stephens Randall by Dr. Harry James Brown