Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize

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The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award is since 1960 annually American US by the Phi Beta Kappa Society awarded Science Award for outstanding, recently published monographs in the humanities : History , philosophy or religious studies , but also in related fields such as anthropology and social sciences . Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American philosopher and writer.

Award winners

  • 1960 Albert William Levi : Philosophy and the Modern World
  • 1961 WT Stace : Mysticism and Philosophy
  • 1962 Herbert J. Muller : Freedom in the Ancient World
  • 1963 Richard Hofstadter : Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
  • 1964 Thomas F. Gossett Race: The History of an Idea in America
  • 1965 Howard Mumford Jones : O Strange New World: American Culture - The Formative Years
  • 1966 John Herman Randall, Jr .: The Career of Philosophy: From the German Enlightenment to the Age of Darwin
  • 1967 Robert Coles : Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear
  • 1968 Winthrop D. Jordan : White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
  • 1969 Peter Gay : Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
  • 1970 Rollo May : Love and Will
  • 1971 Charles A. Barker : American Convictions: Cycles of Public Thought, 1600-1850
  • 1972 John Rawls : A Theory of Justice
  • 1973 Barrington Moore, Jr .: Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them
  • 1974 Frederic C. Lane : Venice: A Maritime Republic
  • 1975 Marshall GS Hodgson : The Venture of Islam
  • 1976 Paul Fussell : The Great War and Modern Memory
  • 1977 Eugen Weber : Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
  • 1978 Bruce Kuklick : The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930
  • 1979 Elizabeth L. Eisenstein : The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, Volumes I and II
  • 1980 Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel : Utopian Thought in the Western World
  • 1981 George M. Frederickson : White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History
  • 1982 Robert Nozick : Philosophical Explanations (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
  • 1983 Daniel Joseph Singal : The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 (University of North Carolina Press)
  • 1984 David G. Roskies : Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture (Harvard University Press)
  • 1985 Joel Williamson : The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (Oxford University Press)
  • 1986 Benjamin I. Schwartz : The World of Thought in Ancient China (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
  • 1987 Alfred W. Crosby : Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Cambridge University Press)
  • 1988 David Montgomery : The Fall of the House of Labor (Cambridge University Press)
  • 1989 Peter Brown : The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunication in Early Christianity (Columbia University Press)
  • 1990 William L. Vance : America's Rome, Volumes I and II (Yale University Press)
  • 1991 Carl N. Degler : In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought (Oxford University Press)
  • 1992 Gordon S. Wood : The Radicalism of the American Revolution (Knopf)
  • 1993 Theda Skocpol : Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
  • 1994 David Levering Lewis , WEB Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (Henry Holt and Company)
  • 1995 Caroline Walker Bynum : The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 220-1336 (Columbia University Press)
  • 1996 Eloise Quinones Keber : Codex Telleriano-Remensis: Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript (University of Texas Press)
  • 1997 Steven B. Smith : Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity (Yale University Press)
  • 1998 Jill Lepore : The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (Verlag Alfred A. Knopf)
  • 1999 HC Eric Midelfort : A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany (Stanford University Press)
  • 2000 Peter Novick : The Holocaust in American Life ( Houghton Mifflin )
  • 2001 Debora Silverman : Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art (Straus and Giroux)
  • 2002 Fredric L. Cheyette : Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours (Cornell University Press)
  • 2003 David Freedberg : The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History (University of Chicago Press)
  • 2004 Jennifer Michael Hecht : The End of the Soul (Columbia University Press)
  • 2005 Isabel Hull : Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany (Cornell University Press)
  • 2006 Susan Scott Parrish : American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British and Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press and the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture)
  • 2007 David Brion Davis : Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (Oxford University Press)
  • 2008 Leor Halevi : Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (Columbia University Press)
  • 2009 Peter Trachtenberg : The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning (Little, Brown and Company, 2008)
  • 2010 Susan M. Reverby : Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy (University of North Carolina Press, 2009)
  • 2011 Timothy Snyder : Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Basic Books)
  • 2012 Jay Rubenstein : Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse (Basic Books)
  • 2013 Timothy Egan : Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  • 2014 David Nirenberg : Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (WW Norton)
  • 2015 Joan Breton Connelly : The Parthenon Enigma: A New Understanding of the West's Most Iconic Building and the People Who Made It (Knopf)
  • 2016 EM Rose : The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe (Oxford University Press)
  • 2017 Elizabeth Hinton : From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Harvard University Press)
  • 2018 Mike Wallace : Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (Oxford University Press)
  • 2019 Sarah E. Igo : The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America (Harvard University Press)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards. In: pbk.org. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards. In: pbk.org. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .