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The most recent winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize is featured below along with a complete list of all past winners. We also provide a link to our complete index of all book awards available on Happy Dead Trees.

The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize "is awarded annually for a distinguished first book by a young scholar in the field of European history. Until 1971 the prize was awarded biennially and was restricted to American citizens. It is now open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada. 

  

The latest winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for a Book of European History

2007 - Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union by Francine Hirsch

[2008 award will be announced Spring 2009]

 

All past Winners of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for a Book of European History

1905 - The Spiritual Franciscans by David S. Muzzey

 

1907 - The Interdict: Its History and Its Operation With Especial Attention To the Time Of Pope Innocent III by Edward B. Krehbiel

Francisco de Miranda And The Revolutionizing Of Spanish America by William S. Robertson

 

1909 - A History Of Witchcraft In England From 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein

1911 - The Political Activities Of The Baptists And Fifth-Monarchy Men In England During The Interregnum by Louise Fargo Brown

 

1913 - Henry Bennet, Earl Of Arlington by Violet Barbour

 

1915 - The Leveller Movement by Theodore C. Pease

 

1917 - Commercial Policy In The French Revolution: A Study of the Career Of G. J. A. Ducher by Frederick L. Nussbaum

 

1919 - English Political Parties And Leaders In The Reign Of Queen Anne, 1702-1710 by William Thomas Morgan

 

1921 - The Danegeld In France by Elinar Joranson

 

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

 

1925 - The Turko-European Question In the Relations of England, France, And Russia, 1832-1841 by Frederick S. Rodkey

 

1927 - The British Grain Trade In the Napoleonic Period by William F. Galpin

 

1929 - Struensee and the Reform Movement In Denmark by Henry Steele Commager

 

1931 - England, Russia, and the Straits Question by Vernon J. Puryear

 

1938 - French Foreign Policy During the Administration of Cardinal Fleury, 1726-1743 by Arthur McCandless Wilson

 

1940 - Church and State In Russia, 1900-1917 by John Shelton Curtiss

 

1942 - Rival Ambassadors At the Court of Queen Mary by E. Harris Harbison

 

1944 - The Russian Fur Trade, 1550-1700 by R. H. Fisher

 

1946 - Italian Democracy In the Making by A. W. Salomone

 

1948 - The Medici Bank: Its Organization, Management, Operations, and Decline by Raymond de Roover

 

1950 - Germany's Drive To the West by Hans W. Gatzke

 

1952 - The Hapsburg Monarchy, 1867-1914 by Arthur J. May

 

1954 - Tudor Chamber Administration, 1485-1547 by W. C. Richardson

 

1956 - Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640-1945 by Gordon Craig

 

1958 - Diderot: The Testing Years by Arthur Wilson

 

1960 - The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman by Caroline Robbins

 

1962 - Lord and Peasant In Russia by Jerome Blum

 

1964 - His Majesty's Opposition, 1714-1830 by Archibald S. Foord

 

1966 - The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939 by Gabriel Jackson

 

1968 - Politics and Diplomacy of Peacemaking: Containment and Counter Revolution At Versailles, 1918-1919 by Arno J. Mayer

 

1970 - Pioneers For Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913 by John P. McKay

 

1971 - Agrarian Reform and Peasant Revolution In Spain, Origins of the Civil War by Edward E. Malefakis

 

1972 - Enserfment and Military Change In Muscovy by Richard Hellie

 

1973 - The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institution For Social Research, 1923-1950 by Martin Jay

 

1974 - The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action In a Nineteenth-Century City by Joan Wallach Scott

 

1975 - The Land and the People of Nineteenth Century Cork by James S. Donnelly, Jr.



 

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