Louis Gottschalk Prize

2023-24 – April G. Shelford, A Caribbean Enlightenment: Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750-1792 (Cambridge University Press)

2022-23 – Joan DeJean, Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast (Basic Books, 2022)

2021-22 – José Francisco Robles, Polemics, Literature, and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Mexico: A New World for the Republic of Letters (Liverpool University Press / Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford)

2020-21 – Dustin Stewart, Futures of Enlightenment Poetry (Oxford University Press)

2019-20 – Katie Jarvis, Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France (Oxford University Press)

2018-19 – Paola Bertucci, Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France (Yale University Press)

2017-18 – James Delbourgo, Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum (Harvard University Press)

2016-17 – John O’Brien, Literature Incorporated: The Cultural Unconscious of the Business Corporation, 1650–1850 (University of Chicago Press)

2015-16 – Rebecca Spang, Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution (Harvard University Press) — Honorable Mention to Susan S. Lanser, The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565–1830 (University of Chicago Press)

2014-15 – Vittoria Di Palma, Wasteland: A History (Yale University Press)

2013-14 – William B. Warner, Protocols of Liberty: Communication, Innovation and the American Revolution (University of Chicago Press)

2012-13 – Nicholas D. Paige, Before Fiction: The Ancien Regime of the Novel (University of Pennsylvania Press)

2011-12 – David Eltis and David Richardson, Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale University Press)

2010-11 – Margaret Cohen, The Novel and the Sea (Princeton University Press)

2000-01 – Rebecca L. Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture (Harvard University Press, 2000)

2001-02 – Daniel K. Richter, Facing East from Indian Country (Harvard University Press, 2001)

2002-03 – Ellen T. Harris, Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas (Harvard University Press)

2003-04 – Mary Terrall, The Man Who Flattened the Earth (University of Chicago Press)

2004-05 – Dror Wahrman, The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England (Yale University Press, 2004)

2005-06 – David Marshall, The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750–1815 (Johns Hopkins University Press)

2006-07 – Martin Brückner, The Geographic Revolution in Early America (University of North Carolina Press) — Honorable Mention to Michael McKeon, The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge (Johns Hopkins University Press)

2007-08 – David A. Bell, The First Total War (Houghton Mifflin Company)

2008-09 – Vincent Brown, The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (Harvard University Press)

2009-10 – David Hancock, Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste (Yale University Press)

1999-2000 – Mary Poovey, A History of the Modern Fact (The University of Chicago Press)

1998-99 – Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (The University of Chicago Press)

1997-98 – Stuart Sherman, Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form 1660–1785 (The University of Chicago Press)

1996-97 – Steven L. Kaplan, The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question 1700–1775 (Cornell University Press)

1995-96 – Susan Juster, Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England (University of Michigan)

1994-95 – Daniel Vickers, Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 (The University of North Carolina Press)

1993-94 – Gananath Obeyesekere, The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific (Princeton University Press) — Honorable Mention to Madelyn Gutwirth, The Twilight of the Goddesses: Women and Representation in the French Revolutionary Era (Rutgers University Press)

1991-93 – Shared by Joseph M. Levine, The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age (Cornell University Press) and Barbara Maria Stafford, Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine (MIT Press)

1990-91 – J. Paul Hunter, Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (W.W. Norton)

1989-90 – Shared by Felicity A. Nussbaum, The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England (Johns Hopkins University Press) and Jeremy D. Popkin, News and Politics in the Age of Revolution (Cornell University Press)

1988-89 – Damie Stillman, English Neo-Classical Architecture. 2 Vols. (Zwemmer)

1987-88 – John Bender, Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England (University of Chicago Press)

1986-87 – J. M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England, 1660–1800 (Princeton University Press)

1985-86 – Michael Mooney, Vico in the Tradition of Rhetoric (Princeton University Press)

1984-85 – David B. Morris, Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense (Harvard University Press)

1983-84 – Irvin Ehrenpreis, Swift: The Man, His Work, and the Age (Harvard University Press)

1982-83 – John Sitter, Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England (Cornell University Press)

1981-82 – H.C. Robbins Landon, Haydn: A Documentary Study (Rizzoli International Publications)

1980-81 – Michael Fried, Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot (University of California Press)

1979-80 – James L. Clifford, Dictionary Johnson: Samuel Johnson’s Middle Years (McGraw-Hill)

1978-79 – Morris R. Brownell, Alexander Pope and the Arts of Georgian England (Clarendon Press)

1977-78 – John G.A. Pocock, The Political Writings of James Harrington (Cambridge University Press)

1976-77 – Margaret C. Jacob, The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689–1720 (Cornell University Press)