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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 [[Great Britain|Britain]] on any topic which is not primarily British history.<ref>[http:// |
The '''Gladstone Prize''' is an annual prize awarded by the [[Royal Historical Society]] to debut authors for a history book published in [[Great Britain|Britain]] on any topic which is not primarily British history.<ref>[http://royalhistsoc.org/prizes/gladstone-history-book-prize/ Royal Historical Society (RHS)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> 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. |
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==List of winners== |
==List of winners== |
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Source: [http://royalhistsoc.org/prizes/gladstone-history-book-prize/ Royal Historical Society]] |
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*1997 - Stuart Clark, ''Thinking with Demons: the idea of witchcraft in early modern Europe'' |
*1997 - Stuart Clark, ''Thinking with Demons: the idea of witchcraft in early modern Europe'' |
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*1998 - Patrick Major, ''The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956'' |
*1998 - Patrick Major, ''The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956'' |
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*2007 - Yasmin Khan, ''The Great Partition: the Making of India and Pakistan'' |
*2007 - Yasmin Khan, ''The Great Partition: the Making of India and Pakistan'' |
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*2008 - Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock, ''Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture'' (Palgrave Macmillan: 2008) |
*2008 - Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock, ''Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture'' (Palgrave Macmillan: 2008) |
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*2009 - Alice Rio, Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages. Frankish Formulae, c.500-1000 (Cambridge University Press: 2009) |
*2009 - Alice Rio, ''Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages. Frankish Formulae, c.500-1000'' (Cambridge University Press: 2009) |
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*2010 - Natalie A. Zacek, Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, c. 1670-1776 (Cambridge University Press: 2010) |
*2010 - Natalie A. Zacek, ''Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, c. 1670-1776'' (Cambridge University Press: 2010) |
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*2011 - Wendy Ugolini, Experiencing War as the ‘Enemy Other’: Italian Scottish Experience in World War II, (Manchester University Press: 2011) |
*2011 - Wendy Ugolini, ''Experiencing War as the ‘Enemy Other’: Italian Scottish Experience in World War II'', (Manchester University Press: 2011) |
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*2012 - Joel Isaac, Working Knowledge: making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn, (Harvard University Press: 2012) |
*2012 - Joel Isaac, ''Working Knowledge: making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn'', (Harvard University Press: 2012) |
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*2013 - Sean A Eddie, Freedom’s Price: Serfdom, Subjection, & Reform in Prussia, 1648-1848 (Oxford University Press: 2013) |
*2013 - Sean A Eddie, ''Freedom’s Price: Serfdom, Subjection, & Reform in Prussia, 1648-1848'' (Oxford University Press: 2013) <ref>http://royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/gladstonepastwinners.pdf</ref> |
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*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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<ref>http://royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/gladstonepastwinners.pdf</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Revision as of 21:05, 5 September 2015
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.[1] 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 [2]
- 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) [3]
- 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)