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