George L. Mosse Prize

The George L. Mosse Prize is an annual prize given to a historian by the American Historical Association.

Description

The prize, named after historian George Mosse, was established in 2000 with donated funds.^[1] Nominated books must be of high scholarly standards for research and literary merit.^[2] Books with a copyright of 2016 are eligible for the 2017 award.^[3]

Notable winners

Past winners of the prize include:^[4]

• 2016 - Thomas Laqueur, The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
• 2015 - Ekaterina Pravilova, A Public Empire: Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia
• 2014 - Derek Sayer, Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History
• 2013 - Miranda Spieler, Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana
• 2012 - Prof. Sophus A. Reinert, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy
• 2011 - James Johnson, Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic
• 2010 - Suzanne Marchand, German Orientalism in the Age of Empire
• 2009 - Stuart Schwartz, All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World
• 2008 - Atina Grossmann, Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany
• 2007 - David Blackbourn, The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany
• 2006 - Sandra Herbert, Charles Darwin, Geologist
• 2005 - Jonathan Sheehan, The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture
• 2004 - Siep Stuurman, Francois Poulain de la Barre and the Invention of Modern Equality
• 2003 - Sarah Maza, The Myth of the French Bourgeoises: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850
• 2002 - Anthony LaVopa, Fichte: The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-99
• 2001 - Lionel Gossman, Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas
• 2000 - Richard Wortman, Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy: From Alexander II to the Abdication of Nicholas II

References

External links

• Official website