George A. & Jean S. DeLong Book History Prize - Past Winners

2012 - Barbara Hochman, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the Reading Revolution (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011)

2011 - John B Hench, Books as Weapons: Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II (Cornell University Press, 2010)

2010 - Catherine J. Golden, Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing (University Press of Florida, 2009)

2009 - Matthew Kirschenbaum, Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (MIT Press, 2008)

2008 - James RavenThe Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade 1450-1850 (Yale University Press, 2007)

2007 - Rimi B. ChatterjeeEmpires of the Mind: A History of the Oxford University Press in India During the Raj (Oxford University Press, 2006)

2006 - Heather Andrea WilliamsSelf-taught: African American Education in Freedom and Slavery (University of North Carolina Press, 2005)

2005 - Simone MurrayMixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics (University of Michigan Press, 2004)

2004 - Janine BarchasGraphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

2003 - Elizabeth McHenryForgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (Duke University Press, 2002)

2002 - Jonathan RoseThe Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (Yale University Press, 2001)

2001 - Kevin SharpeReading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England (Yale University Press, 2000)

2000 - Scott CasparConstructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-century America (University of North Carolina Press, 1999)

1999 - Adrian JohnsThe Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (University of Chicago Press, 1998)

1998 - Ellen Gruber Garvey, The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s-1910s (Oxford University Press, 1997)

 
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This Year’s Winner:

Barbara Hochman, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the Reading Revolution (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011)

Press Release on 2012 DeLong Prize winner
Book description from UMass Press

A complete list of past winners is available online.