Barrington Moore Book Award

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The section awards the Barrington Moore Book Award every year to the best book in the areas of comparative and historical sociology. Nominated publications should have appeared in the two years prior to the year in which they are nominated. Books may be nominated by authors or by other section members.

2023 Award

Winner:

Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă. 2022. Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires. Cornell University Press

Honorable Mention:

Phillip A. Hough 2022. At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia. Cambridge University Press

Jonathan Wyrtzen. 2022. Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East. Columbia University Press.

2022 Award

Winner:

Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2021. Knowing about Genocide:  Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles. University of California Press

Honorable Mention:

Christy Thornton. 2021. Revolution in Development:  Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy. University of California Press.

2021 Award

Winner:

Elisabeth S. Clemens. 2020. Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State. Chicago.

Honorable Mention:

Yuen Yuen Ang. 2020. China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption. Cambridge University Press.

2020 Award

Co-winners:

 Robert Braun. 2019. Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust. Cambridge University Press
Eddy U. 2019. Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification. University of California Press.

2019 Award

Co-winners:

Andreas Wimmer. 2018. Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart, Princeton University Press.
Stephanie L. Mudge. 2018. Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism, Harvard University Press.

2018 Award

Co-winners:

Krishan Kumar, Visions of Empire:  How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World.  Princeton: 2017.
  Angel Adams Parham, American Routes:  Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race. Oxford 2017
  Daniel Ziblatt, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.  Cambridge 2017.

2017 Award

Co-winners:

  Heather A. Haveman. 2015. Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860. Princeton University Press.
  Tianna S. Paschel. 2016. Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil. Princeton University Press.

Honorable Mention:

  Rebecca Jean Emigh, Dylan Riley & Patricia Ahmed. 2016. How Societies and States Count (2-volume work: Antecedents of Censuses from Medieval to Nation States and Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States) . Palgrave MacMillan

2016 Award

Co-Winners:

Prerna Singh. 2016. How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India. Cambridge University Press.
Fatma Müge Göçek. 2014. Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians 1789-2009. Oxford University Press.

2015 Award

Winner:

Kathleen Thelen. 2014. Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

2014 Award

Co-winners:

Wenkai He. 2013. Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Cybelle Fox. 2012. Three Worlds of Welfare Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

2013 Award

 Co-Winners:

Michael Mann. 2012. The Sources of Social Power, volume 3: Global Empires and Revolution 1890-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Monica Prasad. 2012. The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Honorable Mention: 

Andreas Wimmer. 2012. Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.