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| The Leo Gershoy Award for European History (17th and 18th century) |
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The Leo Gershoy Award "is awarded to the author of the most outstanding work published in English on any aspect of seventeenth and eighteenth-century European history." The award was originally made biennially, but it has been an annual award since 1985 The latest winner of the Leo Gershoy Award is featured below along with a complete list of all past winners of the award. We also provide a link to our index of all book awards and prizes featured on Happy Dead Trees The Latest Winner of the Leo Gershoy Award for European History 2007 The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America by Richard B. Sher [2008 award will be announced Spring 2009]
All past Winners of the Leo Gershoy Award for European History 1977 - Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780 - 1813 by Simon Schama
1979 - The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie, 1775 - 1800 by Robert Darnton
1981 - Never At Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton by Richard S. Westfall 1983 - Partners in Revolution: The United Irishmen and France by Marianne Elliott
1985 - Richelieu and Olivares by John H. Elliott
1986 - Crime and the Courts in England,1660 - 1800 by John M. Beattie
1987 - Six Galleons for the King of Spain: Imperial Defense in the Early Seventeenth Century by Carla Rahn Phillips
1988 - Mind-Forg'd Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency by Roy Porter
1989 - Brother to the King: Philippe, Duke of Orleans by Nancy Nichols Barker
1990 - Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime by Richard Herr
1991 - Liberty in Absolutist Spain: The Hapsburg Sale of Towns 1516 - 1700 by Helen Nader
1992 - The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age by Joseph M. Levine
1993 - Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture: France, 1570 - 1715 by Jonathan Dewald
1994 - The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789 - 1820s by Isser Woloch
1995 - From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, and Estates by J. Russell Major
1996 - Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700 - 1815 by Isabel V. Hull
1997 - Becoming a Revolutionary: The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture, 1789 - 1790 by Timothy Tackett
1998 - Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the 19th. Century by Carla Rahn Phillips and William D. Phillips Jr.
1999 - The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making by Adrian Johns
2000 - The Limits of Royal Authority: Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile by Ruth MacKay
2001 - The Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650 - 1750 by Jonathan Israel
2002 - The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680 - 1800 by David A. Bell
2003 - Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development by Joseph E. Inikori
2004 - Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 by Ronald Schechter
2005 - The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution by Pamela H. Smith
2006 - Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon by Howard G. Brown
2007 - The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America by Richard B. Sher
2008 - Will be announced early 2009
The Official Website of the Leo Gershoy Award for 17th and 18th Century European History
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