The Herbert Feis Award

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2005     Dictatorship and demand : the politics of consumerism in East Germany by Mark Landsman
2004     Divided mastery : slave hiring in the American South by Jonathan Martin
2003     Inside the Cuban Revolution : Fidel Castro and the urban underground by Julia E. Sweig
2002     Learning to win : sports, education, and social change in twentieth-century North Carolina by Pamela C. Grundy
2001     Romancing the folk : public memory and American roots music by Benjamin Filene
2000     India's nuclear bomb : the impact on global proliferation by George Perkovich
1999     The technology of orgasm : "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction by Rachel P. Maines
1998     Discovering the unknown landscape : a history of America's wetlands by Ann Vileisis
1997     Same-sex dynamics among nineteenth-century Americans : a Mormon example by D. Michael Quinn
1996     In public houses : drink & the revolution of authority in colonial Massachusetts by David W. Conroy
1995     The new south comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860–1910 by Mark V. Wetherington
1994     Kimono : fashioning culture by Liza Crihfield Dalby
1993     Athenian economy and society : a banking perspective by Edward E. Cohen; Portia : the world of Abigail Adams by Edith B. Gelles
1992     The idea brokers : think tanks and the rise of the new policy elite by James A. Smith
1991     The Spanish Civil War : revolution and counterrevolution by Burnett Bolloten
1990     A present of things past : selected essays by Theodore Draper
1989     The irony of victory : World War II and Lowell, Massachusetts by Marc Scott Miller
1988     Proslavery : a history of the defense of slavery in America, 1701–1840 by Larry E. Tise
1987     The fatal shore by Robert Hughes
1986     A vigorous spirit of enterprise : merchants and economic development in Revolutionary Philadelphia by Thomas Doerflinger
1985     Breaking the land : the transformation of cotton, tobacco, and rice cultures since 1880 by Pete Daniel
1984     This land, this South : an environmental history by Albert E. Cowdrey