The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

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2018     The mercenary Mediterranean : sovereignty, religion, and violence in the medieval crown of Aragon by Hussein Fancy
2017     Violence as a generative force : identity, nationalism, and memory in a Balkan community by Max Bergholz
2016     Wasteland : a history by Vittoria Di Palma
2015     Dreamland of humanists : Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School by Emily J. Levine
2014     Visible empire : botanical expeditions and visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment by Daniela Bleichmar
2013     Death and redemption : the gulag and the shaping of Soviet society by Steven A. Barnes
2012     Brokering empire : trans-imperial subjects between Venice and Istanbul by E. Natalie Rothman
2011     Soviet women in combat : a history of violence on the Eastern Front by Anna Krylova
2010     A forest on the sea : environmental expertise in Renaissance Venice by Karl Appuhn
2009     Spies in Arabia : the Great War and the cultural foundations of Britain’s covert empire in the Middle East by Priya Satia
2008      A common stage : theater and public life in medieval Arras by Carol Symes
2007     Empire of nations : ethnographic knowledge and the making of the Soviet Union by Francine Hirsch
2006     The Medici state and the ghetto of Florence : the construction of an early modern Jewish community by Stephanie Siegmund
2005     Vienna and the fall of the Habsburg Empire : total war and everyday life in World War I by Maureen Healy
2004     Popular politics and the English Reformation by Ethan H. Shagan
2003     The affirmative action empire : nations and nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 by Terry Martin
2002     The making of the Slavs : history and archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, ca. 500–700 by Florin Curta
2001     Karl Popper, the formative years, 1902–1945 : politics and philosophy in interwar Vienna by Malachi Haim Hacohen
2000     Imaginary cartographies : possession and identity in late medieval Marseille by Daniel Lord Smail
1999     The radiance of France : nuclear power and national identity after World War II by Gabrielle Hecht
1998     Communities of violence : persecution of minorities in the Middle Ages by David Nirenberg
1997     Exclusive revolutionaries : liberal politics, social experience, and national identity in the Austrian Empire, 1848–1914 by Pieter M. Judson
1996     The humiliation of sinners : public penance in thirteenth-century France by Mary C. Mansfield
1995     Listening in Paris : a cultural history by James H. Johnson
1994     Venice's hidden enemies : Italian heretics in a Renaissance city by John Martin
1993     Workers, strikes, and pogroms : the Donbass-Dnepr Bend in late Imperial Russia, 1870–1905 by Charters Wynn
1992     Reclaiming the sacred : religious and popular politics in Revolutionary France by Suzanne M. Desan
1991     Class formation and urban-industrial society : Bradford, 1750–1850 by Theodore Koditschek
1990     Land, liberties, and lordship in a late medieval countryside : agrarian structures and change in the Duchy of Wroclaw by Richard C. Hoffmann
1989     Console and classify : the French psychiatric profession in the nineteenth century by Jan Goldstein
1988     No award
1987     Munich and theatrical modernism : politics, playwriting, and performances, 1890–1914 by Peter Jelavich
1986     Absolutism and society in seventeenth-century France : state power and provincial aristocracy in Languedoc by William Beik
1985     Popular Catholicism in nineteenth-century Germany by Jonathan Sperber
1984     The county courts of medieval England : 1150–1350 by Robert C. Palmer
1983     The crisis of the old order in Russia : gentry and government by Roberta Thompson Manning
1982     Civic ritual in Renaissance Venice by Edward Muir
1981     Work and revolution in France : the language of the Old Regime to 1848 by William H. Sewell, Jr.
1980     The Norman Conquest of the north : the region and its transformation, 1000–1135 by William E. Kapelle
1979     Technology and society under Lenin and Stalin : origins of the Soviet technical intelligentsia, 1917-1941 by Kendall E. Bailes.
1978     The religions of the people in sixteenth-century Champagne by A. N. Galpern
1977     Recasting bourgeois Europe : stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the decade after World War I by Charles S. Maier
1976     The just war in the middle ages by Frederick H. Russell
1975     The land and the people of nineteenth-century Cork : the rural economy and the land question by James S. Donnelly, Jr.
1974     The glassworkers of Carmaux : French craftsmen and political action in a nineteenth-century city by Joan Wallach Scott
1973     The dialectical imagination : a history of the Frankfurt School and the Institute for Social Research, 1923–1950 by Martin Jay
1972     Enserfment and military change in Muscovy by Richard Hellie
1971     Agrarian reform and peasant revolution in Spain; origins of the Civil War by Edward E. Malefakis
1970     Pioneers for profit : foreign entrepreneurship and Russian industrialization, 1885–1913 by John P. McKay
1968     Politics and diplomacy of peacemaking : containment and counterrevolution at Versailles, 1918–1919 by Arno J. Mayer
1966     The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931–1939 by Gabriel Jackson
1964     His Majesty's Opposition, 1714–1830 by Archibald S. Foord
1962     Lord and peasant in Russia, from the ninth to the nineteenth century by Jerome Blum
1960     The eighteenth-century commonwealthman by Caroline Robbins
1958     Diderot : the testing years, 1713-1759 by Arthur Wilson
1956     The politics of the Prussian Army, 1640–1945 by Gordon Craig
1954     Tudor chamber administration, 1485–1547 by W.C. Richardson
1952     The Hapsburg Monarchy, 1867–1914 by Arthur J. May
1950     Germany's drive to the west (Drang nach Westen) A study of Germany’s western war aims during the First World War by Hans W. Gatzke
1948     The Medici bank : its organization, management, operations, and decline by Raymond de Roover
1946     Italian democracy in the making by A. W. Salomone
1944     The Russian fur trade, 1550–1700 by R. H. Fisher
1942     Rival ambassadors at the court of Queen Mary by E. Harris Harbison
1940     Church and state in Russia : the last years of the empire, 1900–1917 by John Shelton Curtiss
1938     French foreign policy during the administration of Cardinal Fleury, 1726–1743 by Arthur McCandless Wilson
1937     No award
1935     No award
1933     No award
1931     England, Russia, and the Straits question by Vernon J. Puryear
1929     Struensee and the Reform Movement in Denmark by Henry Steele Commager
1927     The British grain trade in the Napoleonic period by William F. Galpin
1925     The Turko-Egyptian question in the relations of England, France, and Russia, 1832–1841 by Frederick S. Rodkey
1922     History of the Oath Ex Officio in England by Mary Hume Maguire; The Celtic Penitentials and their influence on continental Christianity by John Thomas McNeill (online version here)
1921     The danegeld in France by Elinar Joranson
1919     English political parties and leaders in the reign of Queen Anne, 1702–1710 by William Thomas Morgan (online version here)
1917     Commercial policy in the French Revolution : a study of the career of G. J. A. Ducher by Frederick L. Nussbaum (online version here)
1915     The Leveller movement; a study in the history and political theory of the English Great Civil War by Theodore Calvin Pease (online version here)
1913     Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, secretary of state to Charles II by Violet Barbour (online version here)
1911     The political activities of the Baptists and Fifth Monarchy Men in England during the interregnum by Louise Fargo Brown (online version here)
1909     A history of witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein (online version here)
1907     The interdict, its history and its operation, with especial attention to the time of Pope Innocent III by Edward B. Krehbiel (online version here); Francisco de Miranda and the revolutionizing of Spanish America by William S. Robertson (online version here)
1905     The spiritual Franciscans by David S. Muzzey (online version here)