Jerry Bentley Prize Winners

The Jerry Bentley Prize is awarded annually to the best book dealing with global or world-scale history, with connections or comparisons across contin ...more

Winners

	A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green 4.07 avg rating — 298 ratings Jerry Bentley Prize (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution by Priya Satia 3.42 avg rating — 163 ratings Jerry Bentley Prize (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World by Erika Rappaport 3.82 avg rating — 84 ratings Jerry Bentley Prize (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order by Jeffrey James Byrne 4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings Jerry Bentley Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism by Michael Goebel 3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings Jerry Bentley Prize (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan by Adam Clulow 4.12 avg rating — 68 ratings Jerry Bentley Prize for World History (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History by Gregory T. Cushman 3.83 avg rating — 59 ratings Jerry Bentley Prize for World History (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Bram Stoker Award
Hugo Award
Royal Society Science Book Prize
Booker Prize
Pulitzer Prize
Newbery Medal
Nebula Award
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
National Book Award
J. Gordon Coogler Award
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