AHA Award Recipients

Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

The Adams Prize is awarded annually for a distinguished first book by a young scholar in the field of European history. The prize was established in 1905 in memory of the first secretary of the Association, Herbert Baxter Adams of Johns Hopkins U., who was also one of the founders of the Association.

The Adams Prize was initially offered on a biennial basis, but in 1930 it was discontinued due to the financial crisis. The prize was revived in 1938, again as a biennial offering, and became an annual award in 1971. The competition was formerly restricted to "American citizens" but since 1986 has been open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada.

2011 Anna Krylova (Duke Univ.), Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front (Cambridge Univ. Press)
2010 Karl Appuhn, NYU, A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press)
2009 Priya Satia, Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East (Oxford University Press)
2008 Carol Symes, A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras (Cornell Univ. Press, 2007)
2007 Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Cornell Univ. Press, 2005)
2006

Stefanie Siegmund, University of Michigan, The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community (Stanford University Press, 2006)

2005

Maureen Healy, Oregon State University, Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

2004

Ethan H. Shagan, Northwestern University. Popular Politics and the English Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

2003

Terry Martin , Harvard University. The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union 1923-1939(Cornell University Press, 2001)

2002

Florin Curta, University of Florida. The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, c. 500–700 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)

2001

Malachi Haim Hacohen, Duke University. Karl Popper—The Formative Years, 1902–1945.  Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)

2000

Daniel Lord Smail, Fordham University. Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille (Cornell U. Press, 1999)

1999

Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan. The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT Press)

1998

David Nirenberg, Rice University. Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (Princeton U. Press, 1996)

1997

Pieter M. Judson, Swarthmore College. Exclusive Revolutionaries: Liberal Politics, Social Experience, and National Identity in the Austrian Empire, 1848–1914 (U. of Michigan Press, 1996)

1996

Mary C. Mansfield, deceased. The Humiliation of Sinners: Public Penance in Thirteenth-Century France (Cornell U. Press 1995)

1995

James H. Johnson, Boston U., Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (Univ. of California Press, 1995)

1994

John Martin, Trinity U., Venice’s Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City (Univ. of California Press, 1993)

1993

Charters Wynn, U. of Texas at Austin. Workers, Strikes, and Pogroms: The Donbass-Dnepr Bend in Late Imperial Russia, 1870–1905.

1992

Suzanne M. Desan, U. of Wisconsin, Madison. Reclaiming the Sacred: Religious and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France (Cornell U. Press, 1990)

1991

Theodore Koditschek, U. of Missouri-Columbia. Class Formation and Urban-Industrial Society: Bradford, 1750–1850 (Cambridge U. Press)

1990

Richard C. Hoffmann, York U., Land, Liberties, and Lordship in a Late Medieval Countryside. Agrarian Structures and Change in the Duchy of Wroclaw (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1989)

1989

Jan Goldstein, U. of Chicago. Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge U. Press)

1988

No award

1987

Peter Jelavich, U. of Texas at Austin. Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performances, 1890–1914 (Cambridge U. Press)

1986

William Beik, Northern Illinois U., Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France (Cambridge U.P.)

1985

Jonathan Sperber, U. of Missouri-Columbia. Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Princeton U.P.)

1984

Robert C. Palmer, College of William and Mary. The County Courts of Medieval England, 1150–1350 (Princeton U.P.)

1983

Roberta Thompson Manning, Boston College. The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia: Gentry and Government (Princeton U.P.)

1982

Edward Muir, Syracuse U., Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice (Princeton U.P.)

1981

William H. Sewell, Jr., U. of Arizona. Work and Revolution in France: The Language of the Old Regime to 1848 (Cambridge U.P.)

1980

William E. Kapelle, Brandeis U., The Norman Conquest of the North: The Region and Its Transformation, 1000–1135 (U. of North Carolina Press)

1979

Kendall E. Bailes, U. of California, Irvine, Technology and Society Under Lenin and Stalin (Princeton U.P.)

1978

A.N. Galpern, The Religions of the People in Sixteenth-Century Champagne (Harvard U.P.)

1977

Charles S. Maier, Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade After World War I (Princeton U.P.)

1976

Frederick H. Russell, The Just War in the Middle Ages (Cambridge U.P.)

1975

James S. Donnelly, Jr., The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork (Routledge and Kegan Paul)

1974

Joan Wallach Scott, The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City (Harvard U.P.)

1973

Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute for Social Research, 1923–1950 (Little)

1972

Richard Hellie, Enserfment and Military Change in Muscovy (U. of Chicago Press)

1971

Edward E. Malefakis, Agrarian Reform and Peasant Revolution in Spain, Origins of the Civil War (Yale U.P.)

1970

John P. McKay, Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885–1913 (U. of Chicago Press)

1968

Arno J. Mayer, Politics and Diplomacy of Peacemaking: Containment and CounterRevolution at Versailles, 1918–1919 (New York, Knopf)

1966

Gabriel Jackson, The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931–39 (Princeton U.P.)

1964

Archibald S. Foord, His Majesty’s Opposition, 1714–1830 (Oxford U.P.)

1962

Jerome Blum, Lord and Peasant in Russia (Princeton U.P.)

1960 Caroline Robbins, The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman (Harvard U.P.)

1958

Arthur Wilson, Diderot: The Testing Years (Oxford U.P.)

1956

Gordon Craig, Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640–1945 (Oxford U.P.)

1954

W.C. Richardson, Tudor Chamber Administration, 1485–1547 (Louisiana State U.P.)

1952

Arthur J. May, The Hapsburg Monarchy, 1867–1914 (Harvard U.P.)

1950

Hans W. Gatzke, Germany’s Drive to the West (Johns Hopkins U.P.)

1948

Raymond de Roover, The Medici Bank: Its Organization, Management, Operations, and Decline (New York U.P.)

1946

A.W. Salomone, Italian Democracy in the Making (U. of Pennsylvania Press)

1944

R.H. Fisher, The Russian Fur Trade, 1550–1700 (U. of California Press)

1942

E. Harris Harbison, Rival Ambassadors at the Court of Queen Mary (Princeton U.P.)

1940

John Shelton Curtiss, Church and State in Russia, 1900–1917 (Columbia U.P.)

1938

Arthur McCandless Wilson, French Foreign Policy during the Administration of Cardinal Fleury, 1726–1743 (Harvard U.P.)

1937

No award

1935

No award

1933

No award

1931

Vernon J. Puryear, England, Russia, and the Straits Question (U. of California Press)

1929

Henry Steele Commager, Struensee and the Reform Movement in Denmark

1927

William F. Galpin, The British Grain Trade in the Napoleonic Period (New York: Macmillan, 1925)

1925

Frederick S. Rodkey, The Turko-Egyptian Question in the Relations of England, France, and Russia, 1832–1841 (Urbana: U. of Illinois Press, 1924)

1922

Mary Hume Maguire, History of the Oath Ex Officio in England

 


John Thomas McNeill, The Celtic Penitentials and Their Influence on Continental Christianity (Paris: Champion, 1923)

1921

Elinar Joranson, The Danegeld in France (Rock Island, IL: Augustana, 1923)

1919

William Thomas Morgan, English Political Parties and Leaders in the Reign of Queen Anne, 1702–1710 (Yale U.P., 1920)

1917

Frederick L. Nussbaum, Commercial Policy in the French Revolution: A Study of the Career of G. J. A. Ducher

1915

Theodore C. Pease, The Leveller Movement

1913

Violet Barbour, Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington

1911

Louise Fargo Brown, The Political Activities of the Baptists and Fifth-Monarchy Men in England during the Interregnum

1909

Wallace Notestein, A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718

1907

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

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