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.^[1][2][3] 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.^[4]

Past winners:^[1]

• 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 ^[5]
• 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 ^[6]
• 2012: Prasannan Parthasarathi, Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850 ^[7]
• 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)

• List of history awards

• World History Association Book Prize, official website.