"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
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The James Henry Breasted Prize is awarded annually for the "best book in English on any field of history prior to they year 1000 A. D.." The latest winner of the James Henry Breasted Prize is featured below along with a complete list of all past winners. We also provide a link to our index of all book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees.
The Latest Winner of the James Henry Breasted Prize for History prior to 1000 A.D. 2007 - The Journey of Theophanes: Travel, Business, and Daily Life in the Roman East by John Matthews [2008 award will be announced Spring 2009]
All past Winners of the James Henry Breasted Prize for History prior to 1000 A.D. 1985 - In Search of History: Historiography in the Ancient World and the Origins of Biblical History by John Van Seters
1986 - The World of Thought in Ancient China by Benjamin I. Schwartz
1987 - No award
1988 - The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Age of Rome by Erich S. Gruen
1989 - Memphis Under the Ptolemies by Dorothy J. Thompson
1990 - Sugawara No Michizane and the Early Heian Court by Robert Borgen
1992 - Hellenism in Late Antiquity by Glen W. Bowersock
1993 - Prehistoric Textile by E. J. W. Barber
1994 - Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism by Miranda Shaw
1995 - Rivers of Change: Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America by Bruce D. Smith
1996 - Caesarius of Arles: The Making of a Christian Community in Late Antique Gaul by William E. Klingshirn
1997 - The Ancient Near East c. 3000 — 3300 B.C., 2 vols. by Amelie Kuhrt
1998 - No award
1999 - The History of Cartography: Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies, volume 2, book 3 edited by David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis
2000 - Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire by Warwick Ball
2001 - Facing the Ocean: The Atlantic and Its Peoples 8000 BC — AD 1500 by Barry Cunliffe
2002 - Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity by William V. Harris
2003 - The Mind in the Cave by David Lewis-Williams
2004 - The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece by Kurt Raaflaub
2005 - The Laws of the Roman People: Public Law in the Expansion and Decline of the Roman Republic by Callie Williamson
2006 - Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400 — 800 by Chris Wickham
2007 - The Journey of Theophanes: Travel, Business, and Daily Life in the Roman East by John Matthews
2008 - Will be announced in 2009
The Official Website of the James Henry Breasted Prize for History Prior to 1000 AD
(Visit our Book Awards Index for a complete list of the dozens of book awards listed on Happy Dead Trees.)
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"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
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