Gladstone Prize

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The Gladstone Prize is an annual prize awarded by the Royal Historical Society to debut authors for a history book published in Britain on any topic which is not primarily British history. The prize is named in honour of William Ewart Gladstone and was made possible by a grant by the Gladstone Memorial Trust. It was first awarded in 1998, the centenary of Gladstone’s death.

List of winners

Source: Royal Historical Society]

1997 - Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons: the idea of witchcraft in early modern Europe

1998 - Patrick Major, The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956

1999 - Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, ISBN 1-86207-029-6

2000 - Matthew Innes, State and Society in the Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000

2001 - Nora Berend, At the Gate of Christendom. Jews, Muslims and 'Pagans' in Medieval Hungary, c.1000-c.1300

2002 - Shared - David Hopkin, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870 and Guy Rowlands, The Dynastic State and the Army Under Louis XIV

2003 - Shared - Norbert Peabody, Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India and Michael Rowe, From Reich to State: the Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830

2004 - Nikolaus Wachsmann, Hitler’s Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany

2005 - Robert Foley, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1850

2006 - James E. Shaw, The Justice of Venice. Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550-1700

2007 - Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: the Making of India and Pakistan

2008 - Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock, Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture (Palgrave Macmillan: 2008)

2009 - Alice Rio, Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages. Frankish Formulae, c.500-1000 (Cambridge University Press: 2009)

2010 - Natalie A. Zacek, Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, c. 1670-1776 (Cambridge University Press: 2010)

2011 - Wendy Ugolini, Experiencing War as the ‘Enemy Other’: Italian Scottish Experience in World War II, (Manchester University Press: 2011)

2012 - Joel Isaac, Working Knowledge: making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn, (Harvard University Press: 2012)

2013 - Sean A Eddie, Freedom’s Price: Serfdom, Subjection, & Reform in Prussia, 1648-1848 (Oxford University Press: 2013)

2015 - Andrew Arsan, Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa (Hurst, 2014) and Lucie Ryzova for The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt (Oxford University Press, 2014)

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