Friedrich Katz Prize Recipients
The Friedrich Katz Prize is awarded annually to the best book published in English focusing on Latin America, including the Caribbean. Awarded for the first time in 2014, the prize honors honors Friedrich Katz, an Austrian-born specialist in Latin American history, whose nearly 50-year career inspired dozens of students and colleagues in the field.
2017
Jane Mangan, Transatlantic Obligations: Creating the Bonds of Family in Conquest-Era Peru and Spain (Oxford Univ. Press)
2016
Edward Beatty, Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico (Univ. of California Press)
2015
Ada Ferrer, Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (Cambridge Univ. Press)
2014
Piero Gleijeses, Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 (Univ. of North Carolina Press)
2017 Katz Prize
Jane E. Mangan, Davidson Coll.
Transatlantic Obligations: Creating the Bonds of Family in Conquest-Era Peru and Spain (Oxford Univ. Press)
In this outstanding book, notable for its broad scope, keen analysis, and crisp writing, Mangan examines the many facets of family and kinship in the dynamic environments of 16th-century Spain and Peru. Drawing on years of research on both sides of the Atlantic, Transatlantic Obligations is an impressive example of historical practice. It forces us to reconsider the diverse ways people conceived and maintained familial relations in the decades following Spanish contact.