Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History

Given by American Philosophical Society

Other Names: Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, American Philosophical Society
34 Works 2,578 Books 23 Reviews 4.2
The Jacques Barzun Prize honors historian and cultural critic Jacques Barzun, University Professor Emeritus of Columbia University, a member of the American Philosophical Society since 1984. A gift show more from Roger Williams, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Wyoming, a former student of Professor Barzun, funds this prize. It is awarded annually to the author or authors whose book exhibits distinguished work in American or European cultural history.

Eligibility

Authors must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States. Books must be written in English, and published in the United States . Books must be single-authored volumes, not collections of articles or edited texts. The subject must be American or European cultural history.

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WorkYear
Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer
2023
Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness by Elizabeth D. Samet
2022
Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II by Paul Betts
2021
The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society by Francesca Trivellato
2020
The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America by Sarah E. Igo
2019
Telling It Like It Wasn’t : The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction by Catherine Gallagher
2018
Secularism and religion in nineteenth-century Germany : the rise of the fourth confession by Todd H. Weir
2017
A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) by Richard E. Payne
2015
A History of Balance, 1250-1375: The Emergence of a New Model of Equilibrium and its Impact on Thought by Joel Kaye
2014
Androids in the Enlightenment: Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self by Adelheid Voskuhl
2013
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD by Peter Brown
2012
Vico and Naples: The Urban Origins of Modern Social Theory by Barbara Ann Naddeo
2011
Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos by Peter E. Gordon
2010
Authorship and Publicity Before Print: Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning (The Middle Ages Series) by Daniel Hobbins
2009
Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800-1940 by Dianne Sachko Macleod
2008
Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560 (Material Texts) by Thomas E. Burman
2007
Five Germanys I Have Known by Fritz Stern
2006
Publishing The Prince: History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism by Jacob Soll
2005
Henry Sidgwick - Eye of the Universe: An Intellectual Biography by Bart Schultz
2004
The Pride of Place: Local Memories & Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France by Stéphane Gerson
2003
Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle by Robert E. Norton
2002
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose
2001
Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century by Peter N. Miller
2000
In the Footsteps of the Ancients by Ronald G. Witt
2000
Barbarism and Religion, Vol. 2: Narratives of Civil Government by J. G. A. Pocock
1999
Seeds of virtue and knowledge by Maryanne Cline Horowitz
1998
Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry by Philip D. Morgan
1998
Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent by Jeffrey F. Hamburger
1997
An Early Encounter with Tomorrow: Europeans, Chicago's Loop, and the World's Columbian Exposition by Arnold Lewis
1997
Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity by Dianne Sachko Macleod
1996
The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 by Caroline Walker Bynum
1995
The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200 by C. Stephen Jaeger
1994
Karl Lamprecht: A German Academic Life (Studies in German Histories) by Roger Chickering
1993
The First Jesuits by John W. O'Malley
1993

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