George L. Mosse Prize

The George L. Mosse Prize is an annual prize given to a historian by the American Historical Association.

Description

The prize, named after historian George Mosse, was established in 2000 with donated funds.[1] Nominated books must be of high scholarly standards for research and literary merit.[2] Books with a copyright of 2016 are eligible for the 2017 award.[3]

Notable winners

Past winners of the prize include:[4]

  • 2017 - James T. Kloppenberg, Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought
  • 2016 - Thomas Laqueur, The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
  • 2015 - Ekaterina Pravilova, A Public Empire: Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia
  • 2014 - Derek Sayer, Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History
  • 2013 - Miranda Spieler, Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana
  • 2012 - Prof. Sophus A. Reinert, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy
  • 2011 - James Johnson, Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic
  • 2010 - Suzanne Marchand, German Orientalism in the Age of Empire
  • 2009 - Stuart Schwartz, All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World
  • 2008 - Atina Grossmann, Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany
  • 2007 - David Blackbourn, The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany
  • 2006 - Sandra Herbert, Charles Darwin, Geologist
  • 2005 - Jonathan Sheehan, The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture
  • 2004 - Siep Stuurman, Francois Poulain de la Barre and the Invention of Modern Equality
  • 2003 - Sarah Maza, The Myth of the French Bourgeoises: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850
  • 2002 - Anthony LaVopa, Fichte: The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-99
  • 2001 - Lionel Gossman, Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas
  • 2000 - Richard Wortman, Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy: From Alexander II to the Abdication of Nicholas II

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