Gladstone Prize

The Gladstone Prize is an annual prize awarded by the Royal Historical Society to debut authors for a history book published in Britain on any topic which is not primarily British history. [ [http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/grants.htm Royal Historical Society (RHS) ] ] The prize is named in honour of William Gladstone and was made possible by a grant by the Gladstone Memorial Trust. It was first awarded in 1998, the centenary of Gladstone’s death.

List of winners

*1997 Stuart Clark, "Thinking with Demons: the idea of witchcraft in early modern Europe"
*1998 Patrick Major, "The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956"
*1999 Frances Stonor Saunders, "Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War", ISBN 1-86207-029-6
*2000 Matthew Innes, "State and Society in the Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000"
*2001 Nora Berend, "At the Gate of Christendom. Jews, Muslims and 'Pagans' in Medieval Hungary, c.1000-c.1300"
*2002 - Shared - David Hopkin, "Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870" and Guy Rowlands, "The Dynastic State and the Army Under Louis XIV"
*2003 - Shared - Norbert Peabody, "Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India" and Michael Rowe, "From Reich to State: the Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830"
*2004 Nikolaus Wachsmann, "Hitler’s Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany"
*2005 Robert Foley, "German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1850"
*2006 James E. Shaw, "The Justice of Venice. Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550-1700" [http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/gladstonepastwinners.doc]

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