Leo Gershoy Award

List of prizewinners

• 2019 — Hugh G. Cagle, Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450-1700
• 2018 — James Delbourgo, Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum.
• 2017 — Renaud Morieux, The Channel: England, France and the Construction of a Maritime Border in the 18th Century
• 2016 — Alexandra Shepard, Accounting for Oneself: Worth, Status, and the Social Order in Early Modern England
• 2015 — John C. Rule and Ben Trotter, A World of Paper: Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the Rise of the Information State
• 2014 — Andy Wood, The Memory of the People: Custom and Popular Senses of the Past in Early Modern England
• 2013 — Daniela Bleichmar, Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment
• 2012 — Ethan Shagan, The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England
• 2011 — Alexandra Walsham, The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
• 2010 — Francesca Trivellato, The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period
• 2009 — Stuart B. Schwartz, All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World
• 2008 — Anne Goldgar, Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age
• 2007 — Richard B. Sher, The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in 18th-Century Britain, Ireland, and America
• 2006 — Howard G. Brown, Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon
• 2005 — Pamela H. Smith, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution
• 2004 — Ronald B. Schechter, Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815
• 2003 — Joseph Eyitemi Inikori, Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development
• 2002 — David A. Bell, The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800
• 2001 — Jonathan Israel, The Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750
• 2000 — Ruth Mackay, The Limits of Royal Authority: Resistance and Obedience in 17th-Century Castile
• 1999 — Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making
• 1998 — Carla Rahn Phillips and William D. Phillips, Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century
• 1997 — Timothy Tackett, Becoming a Revolutionary: The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture, 1789-90
• 1996 — Isabel Hull, Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815
• 1995 — J. Russell Major, From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles, and Estates
• 1994 — Isser Woloch, The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s
• 1993 — Jonathan Dewald, Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture: France, 1570-1715
• 1992 — Joseph M. Levine, The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age
• 1991 — Helen Nader, Liberty in Absolutist Spain: The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-1700
• 1990 — Richard Herr, Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime
• 1989 — Nancy Nichols Barker, Brother to the Sun King: Philippe, Duke of Orléans
• 1988 — Roy Porter, Mind-Forg'd Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency
• 1987 — Carla Rahn Phillips, Six Galleons for the King of Spain: Imperial Defense in the Early 17th Century
• 1986 — John M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800
• 1985 — J.H. Elliott, Richelieu and Olivares
• 1983 — Marianne Elliott, Partners in Revolution: The United Irishmen and France
• 1981 — Richard S. Westfall, Never At Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton
• 1979 — Robert Darnton, The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800
• 1977 — Simon Schama, Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813