The Paul Birdsall Prize is an biennial prize given to a historian by the
American Historical Association
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Background
The prize was established by a donation from
Hans W. Gatzke, who remained anonymous until his death. The prize is named for
Paul M. Birdsall, a historian of European diplomatic and military affairs, and a foreign service officer.
Eligibility
Preference will be given to early-career academics, but established scholars and nonacademic candidates will not be excluded.
Books published in English and bearing a copyright of 2016 or 2017 are eligible for the 2018 prize..
Notable winners
Past winners of the prize include:
*1986:
Robert A. Doughty for ''The Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919-1939''
*1990: Brian Villa for ''Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid''
*1992:
Dennis Showalter
Dennis Edwin Showalter (February 12, 1942 – December 30, 2019) was a professor emeritus of history at Colorado College. Showalter specialized in German military history. He was president of the American Society for Military History from 1997 to ...
for ''Tannenberg: Clash of Empires 1914''
*1994:
Leonard V. Smith for ''Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division During World War I''
*1996: David G. Herrmann for ''The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War''
*1998: John F. Beeler for ''British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880''
*2000:
Marc Trachtenberg
Marc Trachtenberg (born February 9, 1946) is a professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1974 and taught for many years for the his ...
for ''A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963''
*2002:
Matthew Connelly for ''A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era''
*2004:
Robert M. Citino for ''Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare''
*2006: Mark Atwood Lawrence for ''Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam''
*2008: Jeffrey A. Engel for ''Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Aviation Fight for Supremacy''
*2010:
Jonathan Reed Winkler for ''Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I''
*2012: Edith Sheffer for ''Burned Bridge: how East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain''
*2014:
Jacob Darwin Hamblin for ''
Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism''
*2016: Bruno Cabanes for ''The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918-1924''
*2018:
Tarak Barkawi
Tarak may refer to:
People
* Tarak Ben Ammar (born 1949), Tunisian film producer
* Tarak Chandra Das (1898–1964), Calcutta University anthropologist
* Tarak Nath Das (1884–1958), anti-British Indian revolutionary and internationalist schola ...
for ''Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II''
*2020:
Brandon M. Schechter for ''The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects''
*2022: Bastiaan Willems for ''Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945''
*2024: Nicolas Mulder, ''The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War''
References
External links
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{{Prizes and Awards of the American Historical Association
American Historical Association book prizes
American academic awards