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Bentley Book Prize

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The World History Association Bentley Book Prize is an annual literary award given by the World History Association. It was first awarded in 1999 as the World History Association Book Prize; the name was changed in 2012 to honor Jerry H. Bentley. The prize is $500. As of 2013, five of the winning books had been published by Cambridge University Press.

It should not be confused with the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History, a similar book prize established in 2014 by the American Historical Association.

Winners

Past winners:

  • 1999: Andre Gunder Frank, Re-Orient: Global Economy in the Asian Age
  • 2000: James McClellan III and Harold Dorn, Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction
  • 2001: (co-winners)
  • John Robert McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of The Twentieth Century World
  • Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
  • 2002: Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
  • 2003: Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900
  • 2004: Victor Lieberman, Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800 – 1830, Vol. I: “Integration on the Mainland”
  • 2005: David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
  • 2006: No prize
  • 2007: Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration
  • 2008: Stuart Banner, Possessing the Pacific Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska
  • 2009: (co-winners)
  • Adam McKeown, Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders, 1834-1929
  • Joachim Radkau, Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment
  • 2010: John Chavez, Beyond Nations: Evolving Homelands in the North Atlantic World
  • 2011: Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
  • 2012: Prasannan Parthasarathi, Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850
  • 2013: (co-winners)
  • Carl Nightingale, Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities
  • John K. Thornton, A Cultural History of the Atlantic World 1250-1820
  • 2014: Giorgio Riello, Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World
  • 2015: Alfred J. Rieber, The Struggle for The Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War
  • 2016: Robert DuPlessis, Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650 – 1800

    • References

    Bentley Book Prize Wikipedia
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