WHA Bentley Book Prize Winners

Created in 1999, the World History Association Bentley Book Prize recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of world history. In 2012, the WHA ...more

Winners

	Statelessness: A Modern History by Mira L. Siegelberg 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (2021)	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
	Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900-1980 by Gijs Mom liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating WHA Bentley Book Prize (2021)	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
	Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History by Alan Strathern 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings WHA Bentley Book 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
	Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World by Edward B. Rugemer liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating WHA Bentley Book 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
	To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire by Lorelle Semley 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings WHA Bentley Book 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
	A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 by Fahad Ahmad Bishara 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings WHA Bentley Book 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
	Selling Empire: India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600-1830 by Jonathan Eacott 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings WHA Bentley Book 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
	The New Deal: A Global History by Kiran Klaus Patel 3.06 avg rating — 33 ratings WHA Bentley Book 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
	The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650-1800 by Robert S. DuPlessis 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings WHA Bentley Book 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 Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War by Alfred J. Rieber 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (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
	Cotton: The Fabric That Made the Modern World by Giorgio Riello 3.47 avg rating — 32 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (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
	Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities by Carl H. Nightingale 3.80 avg rating — 54 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (2013)	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 Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 by John K. Thornton 3.96 avg rating — 47 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (2013)	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
	Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not by Prasannan Parthasarathi 3.60 avg rating — 110 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (2012)	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
	Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference by Jane Burbank 4.05 avg rating — 317 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (2011)	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
	Beyond Nations: Evolving Homelands in the North Atlantic World, 1400 - 2000 by John R. Chávez really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (2010)	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
	Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders by Adam M. McKeown 3.80 avg rating — 35 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (2009)	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
	Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment by Joachim Radkau 3.97 avg rating — 79 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (2009)	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
	Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska by Stuart Banner 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (2008)	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
	Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration by Felipe Fernández-Armesto 3.98 avg rating — 293 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (2007)	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
	Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History by David Christian 4.09 avg rating — 892 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (2005)	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
	Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830. Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland by Victor B. Lieberman 4.15 avg rating — 40 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (2004)	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
	Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 by Lauren A. Benton 3.27 avg rating — 22 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (2003)	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
	Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis 4.15 avg rating — 1,459 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (2002)	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
	Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World by John Robert McNeill 3.88 avg rating — 557 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (2001)	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
	Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction by James E. McClellan 3.87 avg rating — 186 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (2000)	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
	ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age by André Gunder Frank 3.81 avg rating — 245 ratings WHA Bentley Book Prize (1999)	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