Past Winners of the Heggoy and Boucher Prizes*

*Prior to the inauguration of the Boucher Prize in 2012 the Society awarded the Heggoy to the best book on French Colonial history covering any era.

 

Heggoy Prize   Boucher Prize
2017 Caroline Herbelin, Architectures du Vietnam Colonial. Repenser le métissage (CTHS-INHA, 2016)   Jennifer L. Palmer, Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)

2016

 Emily Burrill, States of Marriage: Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali (Ohio University Press)   Julia Gaffield, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World. Recognition after Revolution (University of North Carolina Press)

2015

Elizabeth Heath, Wine, Sugar, and the Making of Modern France: Global Economic Crisis and the Racialization of French Citizenship, 1870-1910 (Cambridge University Press)

   Christian Ayne Crouch, Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France (Cornell University Press)

2014

Elizabeth A. Foster, Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Empire (Stanford University Press)

   Rebecca Rogers, A Frenchwoman's Imperial Story: Madame Luce in Nineteenth Century Algeria (Stanford University Press)

2013

 Charles Keith, Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation (University of California Press)  

Brett Rushforth, Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (University of North Carolina Press, for the Omohondro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)

2012

 Daniel J. Sherman, French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945-1975 (University of Chicago Press)  

Jennifer Sessions, By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria (Cornell University Press)

2011

Julia A. Clancy-Smith, Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, C. 1800-1900 (University of California Press)

  

2010

Jay Gitlin, Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders & American Expansion (Yale University Press)

  

2009

Kenneth Orosz, Religious Conflict and the Evolution of Language Policy in German and French Cameroon, 1885-1939 (Peter Lang/American University Studies)

  

2008

Emma Anderson, The Betrayal of Faith: The Tragic Journey of a Colonial Native Convert (Harvard University Press)

  

2007

J.P. Daughton, An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914 (New York: Oxford, 2006)

  

2006

Megan Vaughan, Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-century Mauritius (Duke University Press)

  

2005

Londa Schiebinger, Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (Harvard University Press)

  

2004

Christelle Taraud’s La prostitution coloniale (Payot)

  

2003

Ken Banks, Chasing Empire across the Sea (McGill/Queens University Press)

  

2002

Eric Jennings, Vichy in the Tropics (Stanford University Press)

  

2001

Peter Moogk, La Nouvelle France (Michigan State University Press)

  

2000

Joe Lunn, Memoirs of the Maelstrom (Greenwood)

    

1999

 

1998

Leslie Choquette, Frenchmen into Peasants (Harvard University Press)

  

1997

Tanis C. Thorne, The Many Hands of my Relations (University of Missouri Press)

  

1996

Phyllis Martin, Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville (Cambridge University Press)

  

1995

Julia Clancy-Smith, Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1914) (University of California Press)

  

1994

R. David Edmunds and Joe Peyser, The Fox Wars: The Mesquakie Challenge to New France (University of Oklahoma Press)

  

1993

Philip Boucher, Cannibal Encounters (Johns Hopkins University Press)

  

1992

Doug Porch, The French Foreign Legion (Harper Collins)

  

1991

Serge Courville. Entre ville et campagne. L’essor du village dans les seigneuries du Bas-Canada (Presses de l’Université Laval)

  

1990

Christopher Harrison, France and Islam in West Africa (Cambridge)

  

1989

Bill Shorrock, From Ally to Enemy (Kent State University Press)

  

1988

Carl Brasseaux, The Founding of New Acadia (Louisiana State University Press)

  

1987

Carl Ekberg, Colonial Sainte-Genevieve (Patrice Press)

  

1986

John Hargreaves, West Africa Partitioned. Vol. 2, The Elephants and the Grass (University of Wisconsin Press)

  

1985

Bill Hoisington, The Casablanca Connection (U. North Carolina Press)

  

1981

Bill Cohen, The French Encounter with Africans (Indiana U. Press)

  

1977

Cornelius Jaenen, Friend and Foe (Columbia University Press)