The Leo Gershoy Award

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2018     Collecting the world : Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum by James Delbourgo
2017     The Channel : England, France and the construction of a maritime border in the 18th century by Renaud Morieux
2016     Accounting for oneself : worth, status, and the social order in early modern England by Alexandra Shepard
2015     A world of paper : Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the rise of the information state by John C. Rule and Ben S. Trotter
2014     The memory of the people : custom and popular senses of the past in early modern England by Andy Wood
2013     Visible empire : botanical expeditions and visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment by Daniela Bleichmar
2012     The rule of moderation : violence, religion and the politics of restraint in early modern England by Ethan H. Shagan
2011     The reformation of the landscape : religion, identity, and memory in early modern Britain and Ireland by Alexandra Walsham
2010     The familiarity of strangers : the Sephardic diaspora, Livorno, and cross-cultural trade in the early modern period by Francesca Trivellato
2009     All can be saved : religious tolerance and salvation in the Iberian Atlantic world by Stuart B. Schwartz
2008
     Tulipmania : money, honor, and knowledge in the Dutch golden age by Anne Goldgar
2007
     The Enlightenment & the book : Scottish authors and their publishers in eighteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and America by Richard B. Sher
2006
     Ending the French Revolution : violence, justice and repression from the terror to Napoleon by Howard G. Brown
2005     The body of the artisan : art and experience in the scientific revolution by Pamela H. Smith
2004     Obstinate Hebrews : representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 by Ronald Schechter
2003     Africans and the industrial revolution in England : a study in international trade and economic development by Joseph E. Inikori
2002     The cult of the nation in France : inventing nationalism, 1680–1800 by David A. Bell
2001     Radical enlightenment : philosophy and the making of modernity, 1650–1750 by Jonathan Israel
2000     The limits of royal authority : resistance and obedience in seventeenth-century Castile by Ruth MacKay
1999     The nature of the book : print and knowledge in the making by Adrian Johns
1998     Spain's golden fleece : wool production and the wool trade from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century by Carla Rahn Phillips and William D. Phillips, Jr.
1997     Becoming a revolutionary : the deputies of the French National Assembly and the emergence of a revolutionary culture (1789–1790) by Timothy Tackett
1996     Sexuality, state, and civil society in Germany, 1700–1815 by Isabel V. Hull
1995     From Renaissance monarchy to absolute monarchy : French kings, nobles, & estates by J. Russell Major
1994     The new regime : transformations of the French civic order, 1789–1820s by Isser Woloch
1993     Aristocratic experience and the origins of modern culture : France, 1570–1715 by Jonathan Dewald
1992     The battle of the books : history and literature in the Augustan Age by Joseph M. Levine
1991     Liberty in absolutist Spain : the Hapsburg sale of towns, 1516–1700 by Helen Nader
1990     Rural change and royal finances in Spain at the end of the old regime by Richard Herr
1989     Brother to the Sun King, Philippe, Duke of Orléans by Nancy Nichols Barker
1988     Mind-forg'd manacles : a history of madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency by Roy Porter
1987     Six galleons for the King of Spain : imperial defense in the early seventeenth century by Carla Rahn Phillips
1986     Crime and the courts in England, 1660–1800 by John M. Beattie
1985     Richelieu and Olivares by John H. Elliott
1983     Partners in revolution : the United Irishmen and France by Marianne Elliott
1981     Never at rest : a biography of Isaac Newton by Richard S. Westfall
1979     The business of enlightenment : a publishing history of the Encyclopédie, 1775–1800 by Robert Darnton
1977     Patriots and liberators : revolution in the Netherlands, 1780–1813 by Simon Schama