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The World History Association Bentley Book Prize is an annual
award An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An awar ...
given by the
World History Association The World History Association (WHA) is an academic association that promotes the study of world history through the encouragement of research, teaching, and publication. It was founded in 1982. The WHA provides many opportunities for connecting w ...
. It was first awarded in 1999 as the World History Association Book Prize; the name was changed in 2012 to honor Jerry H. Bentley.World History Association Book Prize
, official website.
The prize is $500. It should not be confused with the
Jerry Bentley Prize in World History Jerry may refer to: Animals * Jerry (Grand National winner), racehorse, winner of the 1840 Grand National * Jerry (St Leger winner), racehorse, winner of 1824 St Leger Stakes Arts, entertainment, and media * Jerry (film), ''Jerry'' (film), a 200 ...
, a similar book prize established in 2014 by the
American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional s ...
.


Winners

Past winners: * 1999:
Andre Gunder Frank Andre Gunder Frank (February 24, 1929 – April 25, 2005) was a German-American sociologist and economic historian who promoted dependency theory after 1970 and world-systems theory after 1984. He employed some Marxian concepts on political ...
, ''Re-Orient: Global Economy in the Asian Age'' * 2000: James McClellan III and Harold Dorn, ''Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction'' * 2001: (co-winners) **
John Robert McNeill John Robert McNeill (born 1954) is an American environmental historian, author, and professor at Georgetown University. He is best known for "pioneering the study of environmental history". In 2000 he published ''Something New Under the Sun: An ...
, ''Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of The Twentieth Century World'' **
Kenneth Pomeranz Kenneth Pomeranz, FBA (born November 4, 1958) is University Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1980, where he was a Telluride Scholar, and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1988, ...
, ''The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy'' * 2002: Mike Davis, '' Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World'' * 2003: Lauren Benton, ''Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900'' * 2004:
Victor Lieberman Victor B. Lieberman (born 22 July 1945) is an American historian of early modern Southeast Asia and Eurasia. He presently serves as the Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Asian and Comparative History a ...
, ''Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800 – 1830, Vol. I: “Integration on the Mainland”'' * 2005: David Christian, ''Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History'' * 2006: No prize * 2007:
Felipe Fernández-Armesto Felipe Fernández-Armesto (born 1950) is a British professor of history and author of several popular works, notably on cultural and environmental history. Life and career He was born in London; his father was the Spanish journalist A journal ...
, ''Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration'' * 2008: Stuart Banner, ''Possessing the Pacific Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska'' * 2009: (co-winners) **
Adam McKeown Adam M. McKeown (1965–2017) was a historian of transnational migration. Biography Born in San Francisco, McKeown earned his PhD in history at the University of Chicago in 1997. His dissertation, later published as ''Chinese Migrant Networks a ...
, ''Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders, 1834-1929'' **
Joachim Radkau Joachim Radkau (born October 4, 1943) is a German historian. Life Radkau was born in Oberlübbe, now Hille, Landkreis Minden. Son of a Protestant priest, he studied history in Münster, Berlin (Freie Universität) and Hamburg from 1963 to ...
, ''Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment'' * 2010: John Chavez, ''Beyond Nations: Evolving Homelands in the North Atlantic World'' * 2011:
Jane Burbank Jane Richardson Burbank (born 11 June 1946 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States) is an American historian who is emeritus professor of history at New York University. She is known for her scholarship on Russia and its empire, as well as global h ...
and Frederick Cooper, ''Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference'' * 2012: Prasannan Parthasarathi, ''Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850'' "BC Historian Wins 2012 WHA Book Prize." ''States News Service'' 29 June 2012. ''General OneFile''. Retrieved 12 October 2012. * 2013: (co-winners) ** Carl Nightingale, ''Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities'' ** John K. Thornton, ''A Cultural History of the Atlantic World 1250-1820'' * 2014: Giorgio Riello, ''Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World'' * 2015: Alfred J. Rieber, ''The Struggle for The Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War'' * 2016:
Robert DuPlessis The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
, ''Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650 – 1800'' * 2017: (co-winners) **
Jonathan Eacott Jonathan may refer to: *Jonathan (name), a masculine given name Media * ''Jonathan'' (1970 film), a German film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer * ''Jonathan'' (2016 film), a German film directed by Piotr J. Lewandowski * ''Jonathan'' (2018 ...
, ''Selling Empire: India Goods in the Making of Britain and America, 1600 – 1730'' **
Kiran Klaus Patel Kiran Klaus Patel (born 3 October 1971) is a German-British historian. He holds a Chair at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Education and career Patel studied history at the Universi ...
, ''The New Deal: A Global History'' * 2018: (co-winners) **
Fahad Ahmad Bishara Fahd ( ar, فهد, “leopard“ or “cheetah”), also transliterated Fahed or Fahad, can refer to: People Given name Fahad *Fahad Ali (born 1987), Indian television actor *Fahad Babar (born 1992), Pakistani born American cricketer *Fahad A ...
, ''A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950'' ** Lorelle Semley, ''To be Free and French: Citizenship in France’s Atlantic Empire'' * 2019: Edward Rugemer, ''Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World '' * 2020: Alan Strathern, ''Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History'' * 2021: (co-winners) ** Gijs Mom, ''Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900 – 1980'' ** Mira Siegelberg, ''Statelessness: A Modern History'' * 2022: (co-winners) ** Melissa Macauley, ''Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China’s Maritime Frontier'' (Princeton University Press) ** Sujit Sivasundaram, ''Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire'' (University of Chicago Press)


See also

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List of history awards This list of history awards covers notable awards given to persons, a group of persons, or institutions, for their contribution to the study of history. It is organized by region. The entries name the prize and sponsoring organization, give notes ...


References

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External links


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