The George Louis Beer Prize is an award given by the

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for the best book in European international history from 1895 to the present written by a United States citizen or permanent resident. The prize was created in 1923 to honor the memory of George Beer, a prominent historian, member of the U.S. delegation at the

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, and senior

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official. Described by

Jeffrey Herf Jeffrey C. Herf (born April 24, 1947) is an American historian of Modern European, in particular, modern German history. He is Distinguished University Professor of modern European at the University of Maryland, College Park. Biography He was born ...

, the 1998 laureate, as "the Academy Award" of book prizes for modern European historians, it is one of the most prestigious American prizes for book-length history. The Beer Prize is usually awarded to senior scholars in the profession; the American Historical Association restricts its other distinguished European history award, the

Herbert Baxter Adams Prize The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize is an annual book prize of the American Historical Association. It is awarded for "a distinguished first book by a young scholar in the field of European history", and is named in honor of Herbert Baxter Adams, who wa ...

, to young authors publishing their first substantial work. Only four historians— Edward W. Bennett, Carole Fink,

Piotr S. Wandycz Piotr Stefan Wandycz (September 20, 1923 – July 29, 2017) was a Polish-American historian. He was also the President of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, and professor emeritus at Yale University, specializing in Eastern a ...

, and

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—have won the Beer Prize more than once.

List of prizewinners

Source: *2022 — Emily Greble, ''Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe'' *2021 — Francine Hirsch, ''Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II'' *2020 — Emma Kuby, ''Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945'' *2019 — Quinn E. Slobodian, ''Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism'' *2018 — Corey Ross, ''Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World'' *2017 — Erik Linstrum, ''Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire'' *2016 — Vanessa Ogle, ''The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950 '' *2015 — Frederick Cooper, ''Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-60'' *2014 —

Mary Louise Roberts Mary Roberts may refer to: *Mary Roberts (author) (1788–1864), English author *Mary Roberts (bodybuilder) (born 1950), American former professional female bodybuilder *Mary Roberts (painter) (?–1761), American first female miniaturist in the Am ...

, ''What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France'' *2013 — R.M. Douglas, ''Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War'' *2012 —

Tara Zahra Tara Elizabeth Zahra (born August 3, 1976) is an American academic who is a Livingston Professor of East European History at the University of Chicago. She graduated from Swarthmore College and from the University of Michigan with a PhD. She ha ...

, ''The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe's Families after World War II'' *2011 — David M. Ciarlo, ''Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany'' *2011 —

Michael A. Reynolds Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...

, ''Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908-18'' *2010 — Holly Case, ''Between States: The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during World War II'' *2009 —

William I. Hitchcock William I. Hitchcock is the William W. Corcoran Professor of History at the University of Virginia. His work focuses on the history of the 20th century. Books * ''France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Stability in Europe, 1945 ...

, ''The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe'' *2008 —

Melvyn P. Leffler Melvyn Paul Leffler (born May 31, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American historian and educator, currently Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the winner of numerous awards, including the Bancroft Prize ...

, ''For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War'' *2007 —

J.P. Daughton JP may refer to: Arts and media * ''JP'' (album), 2001, by American singer Jesse Powell * ''Jp'' (magazine), an American Jeep magazine * ''Jönköpings-Posten'', a Swedish newspaper * Judas Priest, an English heavy metal band * '' Jurassic Pa ...

, ''An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914'' *2006 — Mark A. Lawrence, ''Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam'' *2005 — Carole Fink, ''Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938'' *2004 —

Kate Brown Katherine Brown (born June 21, 1960) is an American politician and attorney serving as the 38th governor of Oregon since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she served three terms as the state representative from the 13th district of the ...

, ''A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland'' *2003 —

Timothy D. Snyder Timothy David Snyder (born August 18, 1969) is an American historian specializing in the modern history of Central and Eastern Europe. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute f ...

, '' The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999'' *2002 —

Matthew Connelly Matthew James Connelly (born November 25, 1967) is an American professor of international and global history at Columbia University. His areas of expertise include the global Cold War, official secrecy, population control, and decolonization. He ...

, ''A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era'' *2001 — John Connelly, ''Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-56'' *2000 —

Marc Trachtenberg Marc Trachtenberg (born February 9, 1946) is a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974 and taught for many years for the history ...

, ''A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-63'' *1999 — Daniel T. Rodgers, ''Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age'' *1998 —

, ''Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys'' *1997 —

Vojtech Mastny Vojtech Mastny may refer to: * Vojtěch Mastný (1874-1954), Czechoslovak diplomat * Vojtech Mastny (historian) Vojtech Mastny (born Vojtěch Mastný in 1936 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is an American historian of Czech descent, professor of poli ...

, ''The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years'' *1995 —

Mary Nolan Mary Nolan (born Mariam Imogene Robertson; December 18, 1902 – October 31, 1948) was an American stage and film actress, singer and dancer. She began her career as a Ziegfeld girl in the 1920s performing under the stage name Imogene "Bubbles ...

, ''Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany'' *1994 —

Gerhard L. Weinberg Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg (born 1 January 1928) is a German-born American diplomatic and military historian noted for his studies in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II. Weinberg is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History ...

, ''A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II'' *1993 — Christine A. White, ''British and American Commercial Relations with Soviet Russia, 1918-24'' *1992 — Nicole T. Jordan, ''The Popular Front and Central Europe: The Dilemmas of French Impotence, 1918-40'' *1991 — John R. Gillingham, ''Coal, Steel, and the Rebirth of Europe, 1945-55 '' *1990 — Steven M. Miner, ''Between Churchill and Stalin. The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Grand Alliance'' *1989 —

, ''The Twilight of the French Eastern Alliances, 1926-36: French-Czechoslovak-Polish Relations from Locarno to the Remilitarization of the Rhineland'' *1988 —

Michael J. Hogan Michael Joseph Hogan (April 22, 1871 – May 7, 1940) was an American businessman and politician from Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. A Republican Party (United States), Republican, he was most notable for his service on New York City's bo ...

, ''The Marshall Plan: America, Great Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-52 '' *1987 — Philip S. Khoury, ''Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism '' *1985 — Carole Fink, ''The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy, 1921-22'' *1984 —

Wm. Roger Louis William Roger Louis Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (born May 8, 1936), commonly known as Wm. Roger Louis or, informally, Roger Louis, is an American historian and a professor at the ...

, ''The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-51: Arab Nationalism, the United States, and Postwar Imperialism'' *1983 — Sarah M. Terry, ''Poland's Place in Europe: General Sikorski and the Origin of the Oder-Neisse Line, 1939-43'' *1982 —

MacGregor Knox MacGregor Knox is an American historian of 20th-century Europe, and was from 1994 to 2010 the Stevenson Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. He is the son of the British-born classical scholar and historian Bernard ...

, ''Mussolini Unleashed, 1939-41: Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy's Last War'' *1981 — Sally J. Marks, ''Innocent Abroad: Belgium at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919'' *1979 — Edward W. Bennett, ''German Disarmament and the West, 1932-33'' *1977 — Stephen A. Schuker, ''The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of 1924 and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan'' *1976 —

Charles S. Maier Charles S. Maier (born February 23, 1939, in New York City) is the Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History at Harvard University. He teaches European and international history at Harvard. Biography Maier served as the director of th ...

, ''Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade After World War I'' *1972 — Jon S. Jacobson, ''Locarno Diplomacy: Germany and the West'' *1971 —

, ''The Foreign Policy of Hitler’s Germany, Diplomatic Revolution in Europe, 1933-36'' *1970 —

Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. Samuel Ruthven Williamson Jr. (born November 10, 1935, in Bogalusa, Louisiana, Bogalusa, Louisiana) is an American historian. He was President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of the South (Sewanee),."About Sewanee,"Previous Vice-Chancellors" ...

, ''The Politics of Grand Strategy: Britain and France Prepare for War, 1904-14'' *1969 — Richard Ullman, ''Britain and the Russian Civil War, November 1918-February 1920'' *1967 — George A. Brinkley, ''The Volunteer Army and the Revolution in South Russia'' *1966 — Robert Wohl, ''French Communism in the Making'' *1965 — Paul S. Guinn, ''British Strategy and Politics, 1914-18'' *1964 — Ivo Lederer, ''Yugoslavia at the Paris Peace Conference'' *1964 — Harold Nelson, ''Land and Power: British and Allied Policy on Germany’s Frontiers, 1916-19'' *1963 — Edward W. Bennett, ''Germany and the Diplomacy of the Financial Crisis, 1931'' *1963 — Hans A. Schmitt, ''The Path to European Union'' *1962 —

, ''France and Her Eastern Allies, 1919-25'' *1961 — Charles F. Delzell, ''Mussolini's Enemies: The Italian Anti-Fascist Resistance'' *1960 — Rudolph Binion, ''Defeated Leaders: The Political Fate of Cailleux, Jouvenel, and Tardieu'' *1959 —

Ernest R. May Ernest Richard May (November 19, 1928 – June 1, 2009) was an American historian of international relations, whose 14 published books include analyses of American involvement in World War I and the causes of the Fall of France during World War ...

, ''The World War and American Isolation 1914-17'' *1958 — Victor S. Mamatey, ''The United States and East Central Europe'' *1957 —

Alexander Dallin Alexander Davidovich Dallin (21 May 1924 – 22 July 2000) was an American historian, political scientist, and international relations scholar at Columbia University, where he was the Adlai Stevenson Professor of International Relations and the d ...

, ''German Rule in Russia, 1941-45'' *1956 —

Henry Cord Meyer Henry Cord Meyer (1912 – 2001) was an American historian specializing in modern European and Central European history. He was an expert on the politics and economics of airships in the post-World War I period (1920-1938). Biography The on ...

, ''Mitteleuropa in German Thought and Action, 1815-1945'' *1955 —

Richard Pipes Richard Edgar Pipes ( yi, ריכארד פּיִפּעץ ''Rikhard Pipets'', the surname literally means 'beak'; pl, Ryszard Pipes; July 11, 1923 – May 17, 2018) was an American academic who specialized in Russian and Soviet history. He publish ...

, ''The Formation of the Soviet Union'' *1954 — Wayne Vucinich, ''Serbia Between East and West: The Events of 1903-08'' *1953 — Russell H. Fifield, ''Woodrow Wilson and the Far East'' *1952 —

Robert H. Ferrell Robert Hugh Ferrell (May 8, 1921 – August 8, 2018) was an American historian and a prolific author or editor of more than 60 books on a wide range of topics, including the U.S. presidency, World War I, and U.S. foreign policy and diploma ...

, '' Peace in Their Time: The Origins of the Kellogg-Briand Pact'' *1943 — Arthur Norton Cook, ''British Enterprise in Nigeria'' *1941 — Arthur Marder, ''The Anatomy of British Sea Power'' *1940 — Richard H. Heindel, ''The American Impact on Great Britain, 1898-1914'' *1939 — Pauline R. Anderson, ''Background of Anti-English Feeling in Germany, 1890-1902'' *1938 — René Albrecht-Carrié, ''Italy at the Paris Peace Conference'' *1937 — Charles Porter, ''The Career of Théophile Delcassé'' *1934 — Ross Hoffman, ''Great Britain and the German Trade Rivalry, 1875-1914'' *1933 — Robert T. Pollard, ''China's Foreign Relations, 1917-31'' *1932 — Oswald H. Wedel, ''Austro-German Diplomatic Relations, 1908-14 '' *1931 — Oron J. Hale, ''Germany and the Diplomatic Revolution: A Study in Diplomacy and the Press, 1904-06'' *1930 — Bernadotte E. Schmitt, ''The Coming of the War, 1914'' *1929 — M.B. Giffen, ''Fashoda: The Incident and Its Diplomatic Setting'' *1928 —

Sidney Bradshaw Fay Sidney Bradshaw Fay (13 April 1876 in Washington, D.C. – 29 August 1967 in Lexington, Massachusetts) was an American historian, whose examination of the causes of World War I, ''The Origins of the World War '' (1928; revised edition 1930) remains ...

, ''The Origins of the World War'' *1925 — Edith Stickney, ''Southern Albania or Northern Epirus in European International Affairs, 1912-23'' *1924 — Alfred L.P. Dennis, ''The Foreign Policies of Soviet Russia'' *1923 — Walter Russell Batsell, ''The Mandatory System: Its Historical Background and Relation to the New Imperialism'' *1923 —

Edward Mead Earle Edward Mead Earle (1894 – June 23, 1954) was an American author and university lecturer who specialized in the role of the military in foreign relations. He was a consultant to various departments of the U.S. government, especially during Worl ...

, ''Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway''

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