American Historical Association

Prizes

AHA Award Recipients

Morris D. Forkosch Prize

The Morris D. Forkosch Prize is offered annually in recognition of the best book in English in the field of British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history. It replaces the Robert Livingston Schuyler Prize covering the same fields. Submission of books relating to the shared common law heritage of the English-speaking world are particularly encouraged in memory of the late Professor Forkosch's contributions to the field of legal studies and legal history.

2011

Philip J. Stern (Duke Univ.), The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundation of the British Empire in India (Oxford University Press)

2010

Steve Pincus, Yale Univ., 1688: The First Modern Revolution (Yale Univ. Press)

2009

Christopher Otter, The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800–1910 (University of Chicago Press)

2008

Barbara Donagan, War in England 1642–49 (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008)

2007

Deborah Cohen, Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions (Yale Univ. Press, 2006)

2006
Christopher Leslie Brown, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2006)

2005

Bernard Porter, University of Newcastle, for The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain (Oxford University Press, 2004)

2004

Robert Bickers, University of Bristol, Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai, (Columbia University Press, 2004)

2003

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

2002

Catherine Hall, University College London, Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867 (University of Chicago Press, 2002)

2001

Richard Drayton, Corpus Christi College at the U. of Cambridge, Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the ‘Improvement’ of the World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000)

2000

Alexandra Walsham (Univ. of Exeter) for Providence in Early Modern England (Oxford Univ. Press, 1999).

1999

Kathleen Paul, University of South Florida, Whitewashing Britain: Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era (Cornell U. Press, 1997)

1997

Margaret R. Hunt, Amherst College, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680–1780 (U. of California Press, 1996)

1995

P. J. Cain, U. of Birmingham and A.G. Hopkins, U. of Geneva, British Imperialism, 2 vols. (Longman, 1993)

1993

Robert Brenner, U. of California, Los Angeles, Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London’s Overseas Traders, 1550–1653 (Princeton U. Press, 1992)

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2011	Philip J. Stern (Duke Univ.), The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundation of the British Empire in India (Oxford University Press)
2010	Steve Pincus, Yale Univ., 1688: The First Modern Revolution (Yale Univ. Press)
2009	Christopher Otter, The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800–1910 (University of Chicago Press)
2008	Barbara Donagan, War in England 1642–49 (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008)
2007	Deborah Cohen, Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions (Yale Univ. Press, 2006)
2006	Christopher Leslie Brown, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2006)
2005	Bernard Porter, University of Newcastle, for The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain (Oxford University Press, 2004)
2004	Robert Bickers, University of Bristol, Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai, (Columbia University Press, 2004)
2003	Ethan H. Shagan, Northwestern University, Popular Politics and the English Reformation, (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
2002	Catherine Hall, University College London, Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867 (University of Chicago Press, 2002)
2001	Richard Drayton, Corpus Christi College at the U. of Cambridge, Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the ‘Improvement’ of the World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000)
2000	Alexandra Walsham (Univ. of Exeter) for Providence in Early Modern England (Oxford Univ. Press, 1999).
1999	Kathleen Paul, University of South Florida, Whitewashing Britain: Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era (Cornell U. Press, 1997)
1997	Margaret R. Hunt, Amherst College, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680–1780 (U. of California Press, 1996)
1995	P. J. Cain, U. of Birmingham and A.G. Hopkins, U. of Geneva, British Imperialism, 2 vols. (Longman, 1993)
1993	Robert Brenner, U. of California, Los Angeles, Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London’s Overseas Traders, 1550–1653 (Princeton U. Press, 1992)