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.
2024
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Leslie C. Gates. 2023. Capitalist Outsiders: Oil’s Legacies in Mexico and Venezuela. University of Pittsburgh Press. |
Honorable Mention:
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Vrushali Patil. 2022. Webbed Connectivities: The Imperial Sociology of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality. University of Minnesota Press. |
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Julian Go. 2023. Policing Empires Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US. Oxford University Press. |
2023
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Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă. 2022. Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires. Cornell University Press |
Honorable Mention:
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Phillip A. Hough 2022. At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Commodities, Workers, and Crisis in Rural Colombia. Cambridge University Press |
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Jonathan Wyrtzen. 2022. Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East. Columbia University Press. |
2022
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Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2021. Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles. University of California Press |
Honorable Mention:
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Christy Thornton. 2021. Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy. University of California Press. |
2021
Winner:
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Elisabeth S. Clemens. 2020. Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State. Chicago. |
Honorable Mention:
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Yuen Yuen Ang. 2020. China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption. Cambridge University Press. |
2020
Co-winners:
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Robert Braun. 2019. Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust. Cambridge University Press |
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Eddy U. 2019. Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification. University of California Press. |
2019
Co-winners:
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Andreas Wimmer. 2018. Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart, Princeton University Press. |
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Stephanie L. Mudge. 2018. Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism, Harvard University Press. |
2018
Co-winners:
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Krishan Kumar, Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World. Princeton: 2017. |
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Angel Adams Parham, American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race. Oxford 2017 |
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Daniel Ziblatt, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy. Cambridge 2017. |
2017
Co-winners:
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Heather A. Haveman. 2015. Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860. Princeton University Press. |
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Tianna S. Paschel. 2016. Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil. Princeton University Press. |
Honorable Mention:
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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
Co-Winners:
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Prerna Singh. 2016. How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India. Cambridge University Press. |
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Fatma Müge Göçek. 2014. Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians 1789-2009. Oxford University Press. |
2015
Winner:
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Kathleen Thelen. 2014. Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. |
2014
Co-winners:
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Wenkai He. 2013. Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. |
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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
Co-Winners:
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Michael Mann. 2012. The Sources of Social Power, volume 3: Global Empires and Revolution 1890-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press |
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Monica Prasad. 2012. The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. |
Honorable Mention:
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Andreas Wimmer. 2012. Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
2012
Winner:
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Yang Su, 2011. Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press. |
Honorable Mentions:
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Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery, 2011. Peasants under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962. Princeton: Princeton University Press. |
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James Mahoney, 2010. Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press. |
2011
Winner:
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David Garland, 2010. Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. |
Honorable Mention:
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Dan Slater, 2010. Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press. |
2010
Winner:
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Andrew G. Walder, 2009. Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. |
Honorable Mention:
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Marion Fourcade, 2009. Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s. Princeton: Princeton University Press. |
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Chad Alan Goldberg, 2008. Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen’s Bureau to Workfare. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. |
2009
Co-Winners:
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Karen Barkey, 2008. Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
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Ivan Ermakoff, 2008. Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdications. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. |
2008
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George Steinmetz, 2007. The Devil’s Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. |
2007
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Monica Prasad, 2006. The Politics of Free Markets: The Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. |
2006
Winner:
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Michael Mann, 2005. The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press. |
Honorable Mention:
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Eiko Ikegami, 2005. Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press. |
2005
Winner:
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Vivek Chibber, 2003. Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. |
Honorable Mention:
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Elisabeth Jean Wood. 2003. Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press. |
2004
Winner:
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Gorski, Philip S. 2003. The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. |
Honorable Mention:
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Drori, Gili S., John W. Meyer, Francisco O. Ramirez, and Evan Schofer, 2003. Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press. |
2002
Winner:
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Mahoney, James. 2001. The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. |
Honorable Mention:
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Lachmann, Richard. 2000. Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and European Transitions in Early Modern Europe. Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press. |