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.
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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) |
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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) |
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2011 |
Julia A. Clancy-Smith, Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, C. 1800-1900 (University of California Press) |
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2010 |
Jay Gitlin, Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders & American Expansion (Yale University Press) |
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2009 |
Kenneth Orosz, Religious Conflict and the Evolution of Language Policy in German and French Cameroon, 1885-1939 (Peter Lang/American University Studies) |
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2008 |
Emma Anderson, The Betrayal of Faith: The Tragic Journey of a Colonial Native Convert (Harvard University Press) |
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2007 |
J.P. Daughton, An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914 (New York: Oxford, 2006) |
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2006 |
Megan Vaughan, Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-century Mauritius (Duke University Press) |
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2005 |
Londa Schiebinger, Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (Harvard University Press) |
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2004 |
Christelle Taraud’s La prostitution coloniale (Payot) |
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2003 |
Ken Banks, Chasing Empire across the Sea (McGill/Queens University Press) |
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2002 |
Eric Jennings, Vichy in the Tropics (Stanford University Press) |
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2001 |
Peter Moogk, La Nouvelle France (Michigan State University Press) |
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2000 |
Joe Lunn, Memoirs of the Maelstrom (Greenwood) |
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1999 |
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1998 |
Leslie Choquette, Frenchmen into Peasants (Harvard University Press) |
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1997 |
Tanis C. Thorne, The Many Hands of my Relations (University of Missouri Press) |
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1996 |
Phyllis Martin, Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville (Cambridge University Press) |
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1995 |
Julia Clancy-Smith, Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1914) (University of California Press) |
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1994 |
R. David Edmunds and Joe Peyser, The Fox Wars: The Mesquakie Challenge to New France (University of Oklahoma Press) |
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1993 |
Philip Boucher, Cannibal Encounters (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
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1992 |
Doug Porch, The French Foreign Legion (Harper Collins) |
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1991 |
Serge Courville. Entre ville et campagne. L’essor du village dans les seigneuries du Bas-Canada (Presses de l’Université Laval) |
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1990 |
Christopher Harrison, France and Islam in West Africa (Cambridge) |
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1989 |
Bill Shorrock, From Ally to Enemy (Kent State University Press) |
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1988 |
Carl Brasseaux, The Founding of New Acadia (Louisiana State University Press) |
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1987 |
Carl Ekberg, Colonial Sainte-Genevieve (Patrice Press) |
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1986 |
John Hargreaves, West Africa Partitioned. Vol. 2, The Elephants and the Grass (University of Wisconsin Press) |
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1985 |
Bill Hoisington, The Casablanca Connection (U. North Carolina Press) |
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1981 |
Bill Cohen, The French Encounter with Africans (Indiana U. Press) |
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1977 |
Cornelius Jaenen, Friend and Foe (Columbia University Press) |