The judging panel expects to announce the winner in December.
The judging panel is pleased to announce the shortlist for the Constance Blackwell Prize of 2024. The prize is awarded to the best first monograph in intellectual history published in the previous two years (2022-2023). Out of a wide range of submissions, the shortlist is:
–Hegel and the Representative Constitution, by Elias Buchetmann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
–Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain, by Freddy Foks. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023.
–The Power of Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, c. 1590–1650, by Lisa Kattenberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
–Herder and Enlightenment Politics,by Eva Piirimäe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
–The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty,by Natasha Wheatley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023.
The judging panel expects to announce the winner in December.