American award for scholarship on European international history since 1895
The George Louis Beer Prize is an award given by the
American Historical Association for the best book in European international history from 1895 to the present written by a United States citizen or permanent resident.[1] The prize was created in 1923 to honor the memory of
George Beer, a prominent historian, member of the U.S. delegation at the
1919 Paris Peace Conference, and senior
League of Nations official. Described by
Jeffrey Herf, the 1998 laureate, as "the Academy Award" of book prizes for modern European historians,[2] it is one of the most prestigious American prizes for book-length history.[3] The Beer Prize is usually awarded to senior scholars in the profession; the American Historical Association restricts its other distinguished European history award, the
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, to young authors publishing their first substantial work.
2002 —
Matthew Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era
2001 —
John Connelly, Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-56
2000 —
Marc Trachtenberg, A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-63
1999 —
Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age
1998 —
Jeffrey Herf, Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys
1997 —
Vojtech Mastny, The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years
1995 —
Mary Nolan, Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany
1994 —
Gerhard L. Weinberg, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
1993 —
Christine A. White, British and American Commercial Relations with Soviet Russia, 1918-24
1992 —
Nicole T. Jordan, The Popular Front and Central Europe: The Dilemmas of French Impotence, 1918-40
1991 —
John R. Gillingham, Coal, Steel, and the Rebirth of Europe, 1945-55
1990 —
Steven M. Miner, Between Churchill and Stalin. The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Grand Alliance
1989 —
Piotr S. Wandycz, The Twilight of the French Eastern Alliances, 1926-36: French-Czechoslovak-Polish Relations from Locarno to the Remilitarization of the Rhineland
1988 —
Michael J. Hogan, The Marshall Plan: America, Great Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-52
1987 —
Philip S. Khoury, Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism
1985 —
Carole Fink, The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy, 1921-22
1984 —
Wm. Roger Louis, The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-51: Arab Nationalism, the United States, and Postwar Imperialism
1983 —
Sarah M. Terry, Poland's Place in Europe: General Sikorski and the Origin of the Oder-Neisse Line, 1939-43
1982 —
MacGregor Knox, Mussolini Unleashed, 1939-41: Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy's Last War
1981 —
Sally J. Marks, Innocent Abroad: Belgium at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919