AHA Award Recipients

George Louis Beer Prize

The George Louis Beer Prize is offered in recognition of outstanding historical writing on any phase of European international history since 1895. Awarded annually since its inception in 1923, this prize was established in accordance with the terms of a bequest by George Louis Beer (1872--1920), a historian of the British colonial system before 1765.

The award is open to any scholar who is a United States citizen or permanent resident of the United States; books published during the year preceeding the year of award are eligible. The phrase "European international history since 1895" refers to any study of international history since the year 1895 with a significant European dimension.

 

2009

William I. Hitchcock, The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe (Free Press)

2008

Melvyn P. Leffler, For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (Hill and Wang, 2007)

2007

J. P. Daughton, An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880–1914, Oxford Univ. Press, 2006

2006

Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin, Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam (University of California Press, 2005)

2005

Carole Fink, Ohio State University, Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878–1938 (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

2004

Kate Brown, University of Maryland Baltimore County. A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland (Harvard University Press, 2004)

2003

Timothy Snyder , Yale University. The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lituania, Belarus 1569-1999 (Yale University Press, 2003)

2002

Matthew Connelly, Columbia University. A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (Oxford University Press, 2002)

2001

John Connelly, University of California at Berkeley. Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945–56 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000)

2000

Marc Trachtenberg, Univ. of Pennsylvania. A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945–63 (Princeton Univ. Press, 1999).

1999

Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Belknap Press, 1998)

1998

Jeffrey Herf, Ohio University. Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys (Harvard Univ. Press, 1997).

1997

Vojtech Mastny, Inst. for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Essen, Germany), The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years (Oxford U. Press, 1996)

1996

No award

1995

Mary Nolan, New York U., Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany (Oxford U. Press, 1994)

1994

Gerhard L. Weinberg, U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (Cambridge U. Press)

1993

Christine A. White, Penn State U., British and American Commerical Relations with Soviet Russia, 1918–1924, U. of North Carolina Press (1992)

1992

Nicole T. Jordan, U. of Illinois at Chicago, The Popular Front and Central Europe: The Dilemmas of French Impotence, 1918–1940 (Cambridge U. Press 1992).

1991

John Gillingham, U. of Missouri-St. Louis, Coal, Steel, and the Rebirth of Europe, 1945–1955 (Cambridge U. Press)

1990

Steven Merritt Miner, Ohio U., Between Churchill and Stalin. The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Grand Alliance (U. of North Carolina Press)

1989

Piotr S. Wandycz, Yale U., The Twilight of the French Eastern Alliances, 1926–36: French-Czechoslovak-Polish Relations from Locarno to the Remilitarization of the Rhineland (Princeton U. Press)

1988

Michael J. Hogan, Ohio State U., The Marshall Plan: America, Great Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952. (Cambridge U. Press)

1987

Philip S. Khoury, Massachuesetts Institute of Technology, Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism (Princeton U. Press)

1986

No award

1985

Carole Fink, U. of North Carolina-Wilmington, The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy, 1921–22 (U. of North Carolina Press)

1984

William Roger Louis, U. of Texas at Austin, The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945–1951: Arab Nationalism, The United States, and Postwar Imperialism (Clarendon Press)

1983

Sarah M. Terry, Tufts U., Poland’s Place in Europe: General Sikorski and the Origin of the Oder-Neisse Line, 1939–1943 (Princeton U.P.)

1982

MacGregor Knox, U. of Rochester. Mussolini Unleashed 1939–1941: Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy’s Last War (Cambridge U.P.)

1981

Sally Marks, Rhode Island College. Innocent Abroad: Belgium at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (U. of North Carolina Press)

1980

No award

1979

Edward W. Bennett. German Disarmament and the West, 1932–1933 (Princeton U.P.)

1978

No award

1977

Stephen A. Schuker. The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of Nineteen Twenty Four and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan. (U. of North Carolina Press)

1976

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

1975

No award

1974

No award

1973

No award

1972

Jon Jacobson. Locarno Diplomacy: Germany and the West (Princeton U.P.)

1971

Gerhard Weinberg. The Foreign Policy of Hitler’s Germany, Diplomatic Revolution in Europe, 1933–36 (U. of Chicago Press)

1970

Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., The Politics of Grand Strategy: Britain and France Prepare for War, 1904–1914 (Harvard U.P.)

1969

Richard H. Ullman. Britain and the Russian Civil War, November 1918–February 1920 (Princeton U.P.)

1968

No award

1967

George A. Brinkley. The Volunteer Army and the Revolution in South Russia (U. of Notre Dame Press)

 


Robert Wohl. French Communism in the Making (Stanford U.P.)

1966

No award

1965

Paul Spencer Guinn, Jr., British Strategy and Politics, 1914 to 1918 (Oxford U.P./Clarendon)

1964

Ivo J. Lederer. Yugoslavia at the Paris Peace Conference (Yale U.P.)

 


Harold I. Nelson. Land and Power: British and Allied Policy on Germany’s Frontiers, 1916–1919 (U. of Toronto Press)

1963

Edward W. Bennett. Germany and the Diplomacy of the Financial Crisis, 1931 (Harvard U.P.)

 


Hans A. Schmitt. The Path to European Union (Louisiana State U.P.)

1962

Piotr S. Wandycz. France and Her Eastern Allies, 1919–1925 (U. of Minnesota Press)

1961

Charles F. Delzell. Mussolini’s Enemies: The Italian Anti-Fascist Resistance (Princeton U.P.)

1960

Rudolph Binion. Defeated Leaders: The Political Fate of Cailleux, Jouvenel, and Tardieu (Columbia U.P.)

1959

Ernest R. May. The World War and American Isolation, 1914–17 (Harvard U.P.)

1958

Vincent Marmety. The United States and East Central Europe (Princeton U.P.)

1957

Alexander Dallin. German Rule in Russia, 1941–1945 (St. Martin’s Press)

1956

Henry Cord Meyer. Mitteleuropa in German Thought and Action, 1815–1945 (Batsford)

1955

Richard Pipes. The Formation of the Soviet Union (Harvard U.P.)

1954

Wayne S. Vucinich. Serbia Between East and West: The Events of 1903–1908 (Stanford U.P.)

1953

Russell Fifield. Woodrow Wilson and the Far East (Cornell U.P.)

1952

Robert H. Ferrell. Peace in Their Time: The Origins of the Kellogg-Briand Pact (Yale U.P.)

1951

No award

1950

No award

1949

No award

1948

No award

1947

No award

1946

No award

1945

No award

1944

No award

1943

Arthur Norton Cook. British Enterprise in Nigeria (U. of Pennsylvania Press)

1942

No award

1941

Arthur J. Marder. The Anatomy of British Sea Power (Knopf)

1940

Richard Heathcote Heindel. The American Impact on Great Britain, 1898–1914 (U. of Pennsylvania Press)

1939

Pauline Relyea Anderson. Background of Anti-English Feeling in Germany, 1890–1902 (American U.P.)

1938

Rene Albrecht-Carrie. Italy at the Paris Peace Conference (Columbia U.P.)

1937

Charles Wesley Porter. The Career of Theophile Declasse (U. of Pennsylvania Press)

1936

No award

1935

No award

1934

Ross J. S. Hoffman. Great Britain and the German Trade Rivalry, 1875–1914 (U. of Pennsylvania Press)

1933

Robert Thomas Pollard. China’s Foreign Relations, 1917–1931 (Macmillan)

1932

Oswald H. Wedel. Austro-German Diplomatic Relations, 1908–1914 (Stanford U.P.)

1931

O. J. Hale. Germany and the Diplomatic Revolution: A Study in Diplomacy and the Press, 1904–1906 (U. of Pennsylvania Press)

1930

Bernadotte E. Schmidt. The Coming of the War. 2 Vols (New York: Scribner, 1930)

1929

M. B. Giffen. Fashoda: The Incident and Its Diplomatic Setting (U. of Chicago Press)

1928

Sidney B. Fay. The Origins of the World War. 2 Vols (New York: Macmillan, 1928)

1927

No award

1926

No award

1925

Edith P. Stickney. Southern Albania or Northern Epirus in European International Affairs, 1912–1923 (Stanford U.P.)

1924

Alfred L.P. Dennis. The Foreign Policies of Soviet Russia (New York: Dutton, 1924)

1923

Walter Russell Batsell. The Mandatory System: Its Historical Background and Relation to the New Imperialism

 


Edward Mead Earle. Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway (New York: Macmillan, 1923)

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