The J. Russell Major Prize

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2018     1668 : the year of the animal in France by Peter Sahlins
2017     The great demarcation : the French Revolution and the invention of modern property by Rafe Blaufarb
2016     The Burdens of brotherhood : Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France by Ethan Katz
2015     Contraband : Louis Mandrin and the making of a global underground by Michael Kwass
2014     The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre : the mysteries of a crime of state by Arlette Jouanna; translated by Joseph Bergin
2013     Empire and underworld : captivity in French Guiana by Miranda Frances Spieler
2012     The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution by Malick Walid Ghachem
2011     You are all free : the Haitian revolution and the abolition of slavery by Jeremy D. Popkin
2010     Martyrs and murderers : the Guise family and the making of Europe by Stuart Carroll
2009     Contested paternity : constructing families in modern France by Rachel G. Fuchs
2008     A revolution in commerce : the Parisian merchant court and the rise of commercial society in eighteenth-century France by Amalia D. Kessler,
2007     Your death would be mine : Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War by Martha Hanna
2006     The invention of decolonization : the Algerian War and the remaking of France by Todd Shepard
2005     From penitence to charity : pious women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris by Barbara Diefendorf
2004     Napoleon : a political life by Steven Englund
2003     Science in the age of sensibility : the sentimental empiricists of the French enlightenment by Jessica Riskin
2002     The Diligent : a voyage through the worlds of the slave trade by Robert Harms
2001     Van Gogh and Gauguin : the search for sacred art by Debora Silverman
2000     The construction of memory in interwar France by Daniel J. Sherman