2008

Anne Goldgar, Tulipmania. Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2007)

2007

Richard B. Sher, The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006)

2006

Howard G. Brown, State University of New York at Binghamton, Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon (University of Virginia Press, 2006)

2005

Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2004)

2004

Ronald Schechter, College of William & Mary, Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 (University of California Press, 2003)

2003

Joseph E. Inikori, University of Rochester, Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

2002

David A. Bell, Johns Hopkins University, The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800 (Harvard University Press, 2001)

2001

Jonathan Israel, School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, The Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650–1750 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)

2000

Ruth MacKay, San Francisco, Calif., The Limits of Royal Authority: Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999).

1999

Adrian Johns, U. of California, San Diego, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making, The University of Chicago Press (1998)

1998

Carla Rahn Phillips and William D. Phillips Jr., U. of Minnesota, Spain’s Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1997)

1997

Timothy Tackett, U. of California at Irvine, Becoming a Revolutionary: The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture, 1789–1790 (Princeton U. Press, 1996)

1996

Isabel V. Hull, Cornell U., Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700–1815 (Cornell U. Press, 1996)

1995

J. Russell Major, Emory U., From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles, and Estates (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1994)

1994

Isser Woloch, Columbia U., The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789–1820s (W.W. Norton & Co., 1994)

1993

Jonathan Dewald, State U. of New York at Buffalo, Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture: France, 1570–1715 (U. of California Press, 1993)

1992

Joseph M. Levine, Syracuse U., The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age (Cornell U. Press, 1991)

1991

Helen Nader, Indiana U. Liberty in Absolutist Spain: The Hapsburg Sale of Towns 1516–1700 (Johns Hopkins U. Press)

1990

Richard Herr, U. of California, Berkeley, Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime (U. of California Press, 1989)

1989

Nancy Nichols Barker, U. of Texas at Austin, Brother to the King: Philippe, Duke of Orleans (Johns Hopkins U. Press)

1988

Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, Mind-Forg’d Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency (Harvard U. Press)

1987

Carla Rahn Phillips, U. of Minnesota, Six Galleons for the King of Spain: Imperial Defense in the Early Seventeenth Century (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press)

1986

John M. Beattie, U. of Toronto, Crime and the Courts in England, 1660–1800 (Princeton U.P.)

1985

John H. Elliott, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, Richelieu and Olivares (Cambridge U.P.)

1983

Marianne Elliott, U. College of Swansea, Partners in Revolution: The United Irishmen and France (Yale U.P.)

1981

Richard S. Westfall, Indiana U., Never At Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton (Cambridge U.P.)

1979

Robert Darnton, Princeton U., The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie, 1775–1800 (Harvard U.P.)

1977

Simon Schama, Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780–1813 (Alfred A. Knopf)