Bentley Book Prize

It should not be confused with the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History, a similar book prize established in 2014 by the American Historical Association.

• Name — World History Association Bentley Book Prize • Description — Recognition for outstanding books in world history • Presenter — World History Association (WHA) • Reward — $500 • Website — https: www.thewha.org/wha-awards/bentley-book-prize/ The World History Association Bentley Book Prize is an annual award given by the World History Association. It was first awarded in 1999 as the World History Association Book Prize; the name was changed in 2012 to honor Jerry H. Bentley. The prize is $500. It should not be confused with the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History, a similar book prize established in 2014 by the American Historical Association.

Past winners: • 1999: Andre Gunder Frank, Re-Orient: Global Economy in the Asian Age • 2000: James McClellan III and Harold Dorn, Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction • 2001: (co-winners) • John Robert McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of The Twentieth Century World • Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy • 2002: Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World • 2003: Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 • 2004: Victor Lieberman, Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800 – 1830, Vol. I: “Integration on the Mainland” • 2005: David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History • 2006: No prize • 2007: Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration • 2008: Stuart Banner, Possessing the Pacific Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska • 2009: (co-winners) • Adam McKeown, Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders, 1834-1929 • Joachim Radkau, Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment • 2010: John Chavez, Beyond Nations: Evolving Homelands in the North Atlantic World • 2011: Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference • 2012: Prasannan Parthasarathi, Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850 • 2013: (co-winners) • Carl Nightingale, Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities • John K. Thornton, A Cultural History of the Atlantic World 1250-1820 • 2014: Giorgio Riello, Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World • 2015: Alfred J. Rieber, The Struggle for The Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War • 2016: Robert DuPlessis, Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650 – 1800 • 2017: (co-winners) • Jonathan Eacott, Selling Empire: India Goods in the Making of Britain and America, 1600 – 1730 • Kiran Klaus Patel, The New Deal: A Global History • 2018: (co-winners) • Fahad Ahmad Bishara, A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 • Lorelle Semley, To be Free and French: Citizenship in France’s Atlantic Empire • 2019: Edward Rugemer, Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World • 2020: Alan Strathern, Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History • 2021: (co-winners) • Gijs Mom, Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900 – 1980 • Mira Siegelberg, Statelessness: A Modern History • 2022: (co-winners) • Melissa Macauley, Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China’s Maritime Frontier (Princeton University Press) • Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire (University of Chicago Press) • 2023: Nile Green, How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding • 2024: (co-winners) • Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John Bosco Lourdusamy and Tiago Saraiva, Moving Crops and the Scales of History • Gunja Sengupta and Awam Amkpa, Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire • 2025: Marcy Norton, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 (Harvard University Press)