Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
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The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize is an annual award of the American Historical Association
. It is awarded to new authors of European history. Named in honor of Herbert Baxter Adams
, who was from the faculty of Johns Hopkins University
and one of the founders of the AHA.
Established in 1905, the prize was at first awarded biannually. There was a hiatus in awards from 1930 until 1938. Since 1971 it has been awarded annually. In 1986 eligibility for the prize was changed from "American citizens" to "citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada".
American Historical Association
The American Historical Association is the oldest and largest society of historians and professors of history in the United States. Founded in 1884, the association promotes historical studies, the teaching of history, and the preservation of and access to historical materials...
. It is awarded to new authors of European history. Named in honor of Herbert Baxter Adams
Herbert Baxter Adams
Herbert Baxter Adams was an American educator and historian.Adams was born to Nathaniel Dickinson Adams and Harriet Adams in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. On his mother's side, he was a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in...
, who was from the faculty of Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
and one of the founders of the AHA.
Established in 1905, the prize was at first awarded biannually. There was a hiatus in awards from 1930 until 1938. Since 1971 it has been awarded annually. In 1986 eligibility for the prize was changed from "American citizens" to "citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada".
List of recipients
, the prize recipients are as follows:- 2008- Carol Symes, "A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras"
- 2007- Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union
- 2006- Stephanie Siegmund, The Medici state and the ghetto of Florence : the construction of an early modern Jewish community
- 2005- Maureen Healy, Vienna and the fall of the Habsburg Empire : total war and everyday life in World War I
- 2004- Ethan H. ShaganEthan H. ShaganEthan H. Shagan is an American historian of early modern Britain.Professor Shagan is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also serves as Director of the Center for British Studies. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his...
, Popular politics and the English Reformation - 2003- Terry Martin, The affirmative action empire : nations and nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939
- 2002- Florin CurtaFlorin CurtaFlorin Curta is a Romanian-born American historian, expert medievalist and archaeologist on Eastern Europe. He is one of the top authorities in the field, especially regarding Balkan history, in the Western historiography; among others like John Fine and Dennis Hupchik...
, The making of the Slavs : history and archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, ca. 500–700 - 2001- Malachi Haim Hacohen, Karl Popper, the formative years, 1902–1945 : politics and philosophy in interwar Vienna
- 2000- Daniel Lord Smail, Imaginary cartographies : possession and identity in late medieval Marseille
- 1999- Gabrielle Hecht, The radiance of France : nuclear power and national identity after World War II
- 1998- David Nirenberg, Communities of violence : persecution of minorities in the Middle Ages
- 1997- Pieter M. Judson, Exclusive revolutionaries : liberal politics, social experience, and national identity in the Austrian Empire, 1848–1914
- 1996- Mary C. Mansfield, The humiliation of sinners : public penance in thirteenth-century France
- 1995- James H. Johnson, Listening in Paris : a cultural history
- 1994- John Martin, Venice's hidden enemies : Italian heretics in a Renaissance city
- 1993- Charters Wynn, Workers, strikes, and pogroms : the Donbass-Dnepr Bend in late Imperial Russia, 1870–1905
- 1992- Suzanne M. Desan, Reclaiming the sacred : religious and popular politics in Revolutionary France
- 1991- Theodore Koditschek, Class formation and urban-industrial society : Bradford, 1750–1850
- 1990- Richard C. Hoffmann, Land, liberties, and lordship in a late medieval countryside : agrarian structures and change in the Duchy of Wroclaw
- 1989- Jan E. GoldsteinJan E. GoldsteinJan E. Goldstein is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History at the University of Chicago.-Work:Jan Goldstein obtained her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1978...
, Console and classify : the French psychiatric profession in the nineteenth century - 1988- No award
- 1987- Peter JelavichPeter JelavichPeter Jelavich is an author and Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University. Previously, Jelavich was professor of history and chair of the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1982...
, Munich and theatrical modernism : politics, playwriting, and performances, 1890–1914 - 1986- William Beik, Absolutism and society in seventeenth-century France : state power and provincial aristocracy in Languedoc
- 1985- Jonathan Sperber, Popular Catholicism in nineteenth-century Germany
- 1984- Robert C. Palmer, The county courts of medieval England : 1150–1350
- 1983- Roberta Thompson Manning, The crisis of the old order in Russia : gentry and government
- 1982- Edward Muir, Civic ritual in Renaissance Venice
- 1981- William H. Sewell, Jr.William H. Sewell, Jr.William H. Sewell, Jr. is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science at the University of Chicago.-Family:...
, Work and revolution in France : the language of the Old Regime to 1848 - 1980- William E. KapelleWilliam E. KapelleWilliam E. Kapelle is a medieval historian at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He received his B.A at the University of Kansas in 1965, and completed his M.A. there five years later...
, The Norman Conquest of the north : the region and its transformation, 1000–1135 - 1979- Kendall E. Bailes, Technology and society under Lenin and Stalin : origins of the Soviet technical intelligentsia, 1917-1941
- 1978- A. N. Galpern, The religions of the people in sixteenth-century Champagne
- 1977- Charles S. MaierCharles S. MaierCharles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University. He teaches European and international history at Harvard. Maier has also served as the director of the Center for European Studies at Harvard.Maier has written several books...
, Recasting bourgeois Europe : stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the decade after World War I - 1976- Frederick H. Russell, The just war in the Middle Ages
- 1975- James S. Donnelly, Jr., The land and the people of nineteenth-century Cork : the rural economy and the land question
- 1974- Joan Wallach Scott, The glassworkers of Carmaux : French craftsmen and political action in a nineteenth-century city
- 1973- Martin JayMartin JayMartin Jay is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a renowned Intellectual Historian and his research interests have been groundbreaking in connecting history with other academic and intellectual activities, such as the Critical Theory of...
, The dialectical imagination : a history of the Frankfurt School and the Institute for Social Research, 1923–1950 - 1972- Richard Hellie, Enserfment and military change in Muscovy
- 1971- Edward E. MalefakisEdward MalefakisEdward E. Malefakis is a professor of history at Columbia University and a Hispanist. He is an expert on Spanish history.The winner of the American Historical Association's Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in 1971 for his work "Agrarian Reform and Peasant Revolution in Spain, Origins of the Civil War" ,...
, Agrarian reform and peasant revolution in Spain; origins of the Civil War - 1970- John P. McKayJohn P. McKayJohn P. McKay, born in St. Louis, Missouri, is a professor of history and an author. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1961, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968. He became a professor of history at the University of Illinois in 1976, where he holds the...
, Pioneers for profit : foreign entrepreneurship and Russian industrialization, 1885–1913 - 1968- Arno J. MayerArno J. MayerArno Joseph Mayer is a United States Marxist historian originally from Luxembourg, who specializes in modern Europe, diplomatic history, and the Holocaust, and is currently Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University.-Early life and academic career:Mayer was born into a...
, Politics and diplomacy of peacemaking : containment and counterrevolution at Versailles, 1918–1919 - 1966- Gabriel JacksonGabriel JacksonGabriel Jackson is an American Hispanist, historian and journalist. He was born in New York. He is a leading authority on the Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War. Since his retirement he has lived in Barcelona, Spain....
, The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931–1939 - 1964- Archibald S. Foord, His Majesty’s Opposition, 1714–1830
- 1962- Jerome Blum, Lord and peasant in Russia, from the ninth to the nineteenth century
- 1960- Caroline Robbins, The eighteenth-century commonwealthman
- 1958- Arthur Wilson, Diderot : the testing years, 1713-1759
- 1956- Gordon CraigGordon A. CraigGordon Alexander Craig was a Scottish-American historian of German history and of diplomatic history.-Early life:...
, The politics of the Prussian Army, 1640–1945 - 1954- W.C. Richardson, Tudor chamber administration, 1485–1547
- 1952- Arthur J. May, The Habsburg Monarchy, 1867–1914
- 1950- Hans W. Gatzke, Germany’s drive to the west (Drang nach Westen) A study of Germany’s western war aims during the First World War
- 1948- Raymond de RooverRaymond de RooverRaymond Adrien de Roover , was a noted economic historian of medieval Europe, whose scholarship explained why Scholastic economic thought is best understood as a precursor of, and wholly compatible with, Classical economic thought. In his day, many economists such as R.H. Tawney taught that Karl...
, The Medici bank : its organization, management, operations, and decline - 1946- A.W. Salomone, Italian democracy in the making
- 1944- R. H. Fisher, The Russian fur trade, 1550–1700
- 1942- E. Harris HarbisonE. Harris HarbisonElmore Harris Harbison was the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University. He was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania in 1907. He joined Princeton as a faculty member in 1933. He became a trustee of the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1951.-References:...
, Rival ambassadors at the court of Queen Mary - 1940- John Shelton CurtissJohn S. CurtissJohn Shelton Curtiss , was an American historian of Russia and historical scholar of old Yankee stock. Curtiss was a longtime professor of history at Duke University.-Early life and education:...
, Church and state in Russia : the last years of the empire, 1900–1917 - 1938- Arthur McCandless Wilson, French foreign policy during the administration of Cardinal Fleury, 1726–1743
- 1937- No award
- 1935- No award
- 1933- No award
- 1931- Vernon J. Puryear, England, Russia, and the Straits question
- 1929- Henry Steele CommagerHenry Steele CommagerHenry Steele Commager was an American historian who helped define Modern liberalism in the United States for two generations through his forty books and 700 essays and reviews...
, Struensee and the Reform Movement in Denmark - 1927- William F. Galpin, The British grain trade in the Napoleonic period
- 1925- Frederick S. Rodkey, The Turko-Egyptian question in the relations of England, France, and Russia, 1832–1841
- 1922- John Thomas McNeill, History of the Oath Ex Officio in England by Mary Hume Maguire; The Celtic Penitentials and their influence on continental Christianity
- 1921- Elinar Joranson, The danegeld in France
- 1919- William Thomas Morgan, English political parties and leaders in the reign of Queen Anne, 1702–1710
- 1917- Frederick L. Nussbaum, Commercial policy in the French Revolution : a study of the career of G. J. A. Ducher
- 1915- Theodore Calvin Pease, The Leveller movement; a study in the history and political theory of the English Great Civil War
- 1913- Violet BarbourViolet BarbourViolet Barbour was an American historian.She graduated from Cornell University with a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D...
, Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, secretary of state to Charles II - 1911- Louise Fargo Brown, The political activities of the Baptists and Fifth Monarchy Men in England during the interregnum
- 1909- Wallace NotesteinWallace NotesteinWallace Notestein was an American historian, Sterling Professor of English History at Yale University from 1928 to 1947.-Works:*A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718...
, A history of witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 - 1907- Two awards;
- Edward B. Krehbiel, The interdict, its history and its operation, with especial attention to the time of Pope Innocent III
- William S. Robertson, Francisco de Miranda and the revolutionizing of Spanish America
- 1905- David S. Muzzey, The spiritual Franciscans