Walter Markov Prize for History

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The Walter Markov Prize for History was awarded to historians from 1994 to 2017 by the Karl Lamprecht Society of the Institute for Cultural and Universal History Leipzig. The European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) wants to continue this tradition under the name Walter Markov Prize from 2019 .

The award ceremony takes place every two years. The prize will be awarded to works on the “French Revolution and the comparative history of the revolution, the history of relations between Eastern and Western Europe, the history of the countries of Africa, Asia and South America and their liberation from political and economic dependency.” The following criteria are used for selection : "The privilege of viewing the historical process 'from below', the use and further development of comparative approaches and attention to world-historical contexts." The criteria are based on the scientific approach of the namesake Walter Markov (1909–1993).

The prize is endowed with 1,500 euros for the printing of the award-winning work. A commission of the international advisory board of the Institute for Cultural and Universal History in Leipzig is formed for the selection.

Award winners

  • Norbert Kersken (1994): Historiography in the Europe of the Nationes. Overall national history in the Middle Ages. Böhlau-Verlag 1995
  • Thomas Erdmann Fischer (1997): History of the culture of history. About the public use of the past from ancient cultures to the present. Publishing house for science and politics 2000
  • Knuth Matthias Dethlefsen (1999): British Presence and Rule in China between 1919–1937. (Master thesis)
  • Christian Koller (1999): Massacred by savages of all races. The discussion about the use of colonial troops in Europe between racism, colonial and military policy 1914–1930. Franz Steiner Verlag 2001
  • Oliver B. Hemmerle (2001): ' Der arme Teufel ' - A transatlantic journal between the labor movement and educated middle-class cultural transfer around 1900. Lit-Verlag 2002
  • Ludger Wimmelbücker (2001): The Kilimanjaro Region. Production and Living Conditions, c. 1800-1920. Lit-Verlag 2001
  • Astrid Windus (2003): Afro-Argentine and Nation. Construction methods of Afro-Argentinian identity in Buenos Aires of the 19th century. Leipzig University Press 2005
  • Friedemann Pestel (2009): Weimar as exile. Experience spaces of French revolutionary emigrants 1792–1803. Leipzig University Press 2010
  • Christoph Kalter (2011): Discovery of the Third World and the new radical left in France.
  • Katja Naumann (2013): Laboratories of Curricular Change: World History at the Universities of Columbia, Chicago and Harvard, 1918–1968.
  • Lukas Schemper (2017): Humanity Unprepared: International Organization and the Management of Natural Disaster (1921–1991)
  • Johanna Wolf (2017): “Assurances of Friendship”. Metal trade unionists during the globalization processes of the long 1970s using the example of the shipbuilding industry

Individual evidence

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