The World History Association Bentley Book Prize is an annual award given by the World History Association. It was first awarded in 1999 as the World History Association Book Prize; the name was changed in 2012 to honor Jerry H. Bentley.^[1][2][3] The prize is $500.

It should not be confused with the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History, a similar book prize established in 2014 by the American Historical Association.^[4]

Past winners:^[1]

• 1999: Andre Gunder Frank, Re-Orient: Global Economy in the Asian Age
• 2000: James McClellan III and Harold Dorn, Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction
• 2001: (co-winners)
  • John Robert McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of The Twentieth Century World
  • Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
• 2002: Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
• 2003: Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900
• 2004: Victor Lieberman, Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800 – 1830, Vol. I: “Integration on the Mainland”
• 2005: David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
• 2006: No prize
• 2007: Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration
• 2008: Stuart Banner, Possessing the Pacific Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska ^[5]
• 2009: (co-winners)
  • Adam McKeown, Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders, 1834-1929
  • Joachim Radkau, Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment
• 2010: John Chavez, Beyond Nations: Evolving Homelands in the North Atlantic World
• 2011: Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference ^[6]
• 2012: Prasannan Parthasarathi, Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850 ^[7]
• 2013: (co-winners)
  • Carl Nightingale, Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities
  • John K. Thornton, A Cultural History of the Atlantic World 1250-1820
• 2014: Giorgio Riello, Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World
• 2015: Alfred J. Rieber, The Struggle for The Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War
• 2016: Robert DuPlessis, Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650 – 1800
• 2017: (co-winners)
  • Jonathan Eacott, Selling Empire: India Goods in the Making of Britain and America, 1600 – 1730
  • Kiran Klaus Patel, The New Deal: A Global History
• 2018: (co-winners)
  • Fahad Ahmad Bishara, A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950
  • Lorelle Semley, To be Free and French: Citizenship in France’s Atlantic Empire
• 2019: Edward Rugemer, Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World
• 2020: Alan Strathern, Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History
• 2021: (co-winners)
  • Gijs Mom, Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900 – 1980
  • Mira Siegelberg, Statelessness: A Modern History
• 2022: (co-winners)
  • Melissa Macauley, Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China’s Maritime Frontier (Princeton University Press)
  • Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire (University of Chicago Press)
• 2023: Nile Green, How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding

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