ASECS Archive
Louis Gottschalk Prize Recipients
The Louis Gottschalk Prize recognizes an outstanding historical or critical study on the eighteenth century and carries an award of $1,000. Louis Gottschalk (1899-1975) was the second President of ASECS, a President of the American Historical Association, and for many years Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago; his scholarship exemplified the humanistic ideals that this award is meant to encourage.
2019
Paola Bertucci, Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France
Yale University Press
2018
James Delbourgo, Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and Origins of the British Museum Harvard University Press
Honorable Mention:
Jonathan Lamb, Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery
Princeton University Press
Honorable Mention:
Jennifer Van Horn, The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, University of North Carolina Press
2017
John O’Brien, Literature Incorporated: The Cultural Unconscious of the Business Corporation, 1650-1850
University of Chicago Press
2016
Rebecca Spang, Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution
Harvard University Press
Honorable Mention:
Susan S. Lanser, The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830
University of Chicago Press
2015
Vittoria Di Palma, Wasteland: A History
Yale University Press
2014
William B. Warner, Protocols of Liberty: Communication Innovation and the American Revolution
University of Chicago Press.
2013
Nicholas D. Paige, Before Fiction: The Ancien Regime of the Novel
University of Pennsylvania Press
2012
David Eltis and David Richardson, Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Yale University Press
2011
Margaret Cohen, The Novel and the Sea
Princeton University Press
2010
David Hancock, Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste
Yale University Press.
2009
Vincent Brown, The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Harvard University Press.
2008
David A. Bell, The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
Houghton Mifflin
2007
Martin Brückner, The Geographic Revolution in Early America
University of North Carolina Press
Honorable Mention:
Michael McKeon, The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge
The Johns Hopkins University Press
2006
David Marshall, The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815
The Johns Hopkins University Press
2005
Dror Wahrman, The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England
Yale University Press
2004
Mary Terrall, The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment
University of Chicago Press
2003
Ellen T. Harris
Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas
Harvard University Press
2002
Daniel K. Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
Harvard University Press
2001
Rebecca L. Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture
Harvard University Press
2000
Mary Poovey, A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
University of Chicago Press
1999
Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making
University of Chicago Press
1998
Stuart Sherman, Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries and English Diurnal Form 1660-1785
University of Chicago Press
1997
Steven L. Kaplan, The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question 1700-1775
Cornell University Press
1996
Susan Juster, Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England
University of Michigan Press
1995
Daniel Vickers, Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850
University of North Carolina Press
1994
Gananath Obeyesekere, The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific
Princeton University Press
Honorable Mention:
Madelyn Gutwirth, The Twilight of the Goddesses: Women and Representation in the French Revolutionary Era
Rutgers University Press
1992 & 1993
Joseph M. Levine, The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age
Cornell University Press
Barbara Maria Stafford, Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine
MIT Press
1991
J. Paul Hunter, Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
W.W. Norton
1990
Felicity A. Nussbaum, The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Jeremy D. Popkin, News and Politics in the Age of Revolution
Cornell University Press
1989
Damie Stillman, English Neo-Classical Architecture
Zwemmer
1988
John Bender, Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England
University of Chicago Press
1987
J.M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800
Princeton University Press
1986
Michael Mooney, Vico in the Tradition of Rhetoric
Princeton University Press
1985
David B. Morris, Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense
Harvard University Press
1984
Irvin Ehrenpreis, Swift: The Man, His Work, and the Age
Harvard University Press
1983
John Sitter, Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England
Cornell University Press
1982
H.C. Robbins Landon, Haydn: A Documentary Study
Rizzoli
1981
Michael Fried, Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot
University of California Press
1980
James L. Clifford, Dictionary Johnson: Samuel Johnson's Middle Years
McGraw-Hill
1979
Morris R. Brownell, Alexander Pope and the Arts of Georgian England
Clarendon Press
1978
John G.A. Pocock, The Political Writings of James Harrington
Cambridge University Press
1977
Margaret C. Jacob, The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689-1720
Cornell University Press