Bolton-Johnson Prize

Given by Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)

49 Works 1,826 Books 13 Reviews ½ 3.9
Called the Bolton Prize until 2000. Awarded by the Conference on Latin American History (American Historical Association) for best book in English on any significant aspect of Latin American show more History that is published anywhere during the imprint year previous to the year of the award show less
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Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant by Seth Garfield
2023
Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City by montanodiana
2022
The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts by Sylvia Sellers-García
2021
Destape: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina (Pitt Latin American Series) by Natalia Milanesio
2020
Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela (Diálogos Series) by Cristina Soriano
2019
The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War by Peter Guardino
2018
In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region by Seth Garfield
Honorable Mention2014
Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America, 1670–1810 by Robert W. Patch
2014
I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
Honorable Mention2013
The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700 (Critical Perspectives on Empire) by Rebecca Earle
2013
Making a new world : founding capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America by John Tutino
2012
Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions by Jane G. Landers
Honorable Mention2011
Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860 by Richard Graham
2011
The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo by Lauren H. Derby
2010
All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World by Stuart B. Schwartz
2009
The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930 by Rebecca Earle
Honorable Mention2008
The many meanings of poverty : colonialism, social compacts, and assistance in eighteenth-century Ecuador
2008
Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973–1988 (Latin America Otherwise) by Steve J. Stern
2007
To feed and be fed : the cosmological bases of authority and identity in the Andes by Susan E. Ramírez
Honorable Mention2006
Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906–2001 (Radical Perspectives) by Florencia E. Mallon
2006
Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil by Bryan McCann
Honorable Mention2005
A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico by Emilio Kouri
2005
Surprise Heirs I by Linda Lewin
Honorable Mention2004
Surprise Heirs II: Illegitimacy, Inheritance Rights, and Public Power in the Formation of Imperial Brazil, 1822-1889 by Linda Lewin
Honorable Mention2004
Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History by Richard Lee Turits
2004
Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War by John Mason Hart
Honorable Mention2003
The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War by Jean Franco
2003
The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Nudzahui History, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries by Kevin Terraciano
Honorable Mention2002
The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810-1821 by Eric Van Young
2002
Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Columbia's Industrial Experiment, 1905-1960 by Ann Farnsworth-Alvear
2001
Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America by Ann Twinam
Honorable Mention2000
On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture by Louis A. Jr Perez
2000
The Life and Times of Pancho Villa by Friedrich Katz
1999
Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 by Jose C. Moya
1999
Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba by Rosalie Schwartz
Honorable Mention1998
Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930-1940 by Mary Kay Vaughan
1998
The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900-1945 by Thomas F. O'Brien
Honorable Mention1997
Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico by William B. Taylor
1997
A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico (Studies in Environment and History) by Elinor G. K. Melville
1995
The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries by James Lockhart
1993
When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 by Ramón A. Gutiérrez
1992
Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 by Inga Clendinnen
1988
Huarochiri: An Andean Society Under Inca and Spanish Rule by Karen Spalding
Honorable Mention1985
Maya Society Under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival by Nancy Marguerite Farriss
1985
Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages by William B. Taylor
Honorable Mention1980
Race and Class in Colonial Oaxaca by John K. Chance
Honorable Mention1979
Landlord and peasant in colonial Oaxaca by William B. Taylor
Honorable Mention1973
Spanish Peru, 1532-1560: A Colonial Society by James Lockhart
Honorable Mention1969
The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule: A History of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, 1519-1810 by Charles Gibson
1965

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