World History Association

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WORLD HISTORY ASSOCIATION JERRY BENTLEY BOOK PRIZE, 2014
Created in 1999, the World History Association (WHA) Book Prize recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of world history. The prize is $500. Formal bestowal of the check is made at the WHA annual meeting, normally held in June. If the author cannot attend, the WHA Executive Director or Treasurer will mail him/her the check following the annual meeting. A one-year membership in the WHA will also be included with each prize.

Authors, publishers, WHA members, or other interested parties may nominate books published during a calendar year. Nominations must be received by February 1st in order to allow time for the Prize Committee to evaluate them.

Copies of nominated books for the 2014 WHA Jerry Bentley Book Prize should be sent to the following members of the Book Prize Committee. Please note that only books published in 2013 are eligible for this competition. Entries must be submitted by February 1, 2014 to allow time for juror evaluations.

World History Association Jerry Bentley Book Prize Committee, 2014
Anand A. Yang, chair
Box 353650
Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3650

John K. Thornton
891 Belmont St.
Watertown, MA 02472

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Dept. of History
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Miwaukee, WI 53201-0413

Past Winners

Winners
World History Association Jerry Bentley Book Prize, 1999-present

2012: Prasannan Parthasarathi, Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850 (Cambridge)

2011: Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (Princeton, 2010)

2010: John Chavez of Southern Methodist University, Beyond Nations: Evolving Homelands in the North Atlantic World (Cambridge University Press)

2009: Co-Winner: Adam McKeown from Columbia University with his book on migration Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders, 1834-1929 and Co-Winner: Joachim Radkau from Bielefeld University with his book Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment

2008: Stuart Banner, Possessing the Pacific Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska (Harvard University Press)

2007: Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration (Oxford University Press (U.K.) and W. W. Norton (North America)

2006: No prize granted

2005: David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (University of California Press)

2004: Victor Lieberman, Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800 – 1830, Vol. I: “Integration on the Mainland” (Cambridge University Press)

2003: Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 (Cambridge University Press)

2002: Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

2001: Co-Winner: John McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of The Twentieth Century World (W.W. Norton) and Co-Winner: Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton University Press)

2000: James McClellan III and Harold Dorn, Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction (Johns Hopkins University Press)

1999: Andre Gunder-Frank, Re-Orient: Global Economy in the Asian Age (University of California Press)