AHA Award Recipients

The James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History

The James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History was created in 1998 in accordance with the terms of a gift from James A. Rawley, Carl Adolph Happold Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. It is offered annually to recognize outstanding historical writing that explores aspects of integration of Atlantic worlds before the 20th century. The prize was established in accordance with the terms of a gift from James A. Rawley, Carl Adolph Happold Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

2011

David Eltis (Emory Univ.) and David Richardson (Univ. of Hull), Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale Univ. Press)

James H. Sweet (Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison), Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (Univ. of North Carolina Press)

2010

Michael J. Jarvis, Univ. of Rochester, In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680–1683 (Univ. of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture)

2009

Maria-Elena Martinez, Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico (Stanford University Press)

2008

Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History (Viking Press, 2007)

2007

Sabine MacCormack, On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru, Princeton 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

Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University, Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (Harvard University Press, 2004)

2004

Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2004)

2003

John Ruston Pagan , University of Richmond. Anne Othwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia (Oxford University Press, 2002)

2002

Patricia Seed , Rice University. American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches (University of Minnesota Press, 2001)

2001

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, State University of New York at Buffalo. How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001)

2000

Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York Univ. Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America (Cornell Univ. Press, 2000).

1999

 

Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University. Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of Atlantic World (Stanford University Press, 1999)

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