T. LeGoff, Vannes and its Regions: A Study of Town and Country in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford University Press) Honorable Mention:Donald Sutherland  

Christopher R. Friedrichs, Urban Society in an Age of War: Nordlingen, 1580-1720 (Princeton University Press) Honorable Mentions :Samuel ClarkBruce Daniels

John N. Ingham, The Iron Barons. A Social Analysis of the American Urban Elite, 1874-1965 Honorable Mentions:Timothy E. Anna, The Fall of the Royal Government in Mexico CityStephen J. Randall, The Diplomacy of Modernization: Colombian American Relations 1920-1940

Donald Finlay Davis, Conspicuous Production: Automobiles and Elites in Detroit, 1899-1933 Honorable Mention:Roderick Phillips

Michael Marrus, The Holocaust in History Honorable Mention:David Levine  

John M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1880 Honorable Mention:Alan H. Jeeves

William J. Callahan, Church, Politics and Society in Spain, 1750-1874 Honorable Mentions:Michael H. KaterJohn Van Seters  

Robert J. Young, Power and Pleasure: Louis Barthou and the Third French Republic (McGill-Queen’s University Press) Honorable Mentions:James A. Leith, Space and Revolution. Projects for Monuments, Squares, and Public Buildings in France 1789-1799 (McGill-Queen’s University Press)Keith Wrightson and David Levine, The Making of an Industrial Society, Whickham, 1560-1765 (Clarendon Press, Oxford)  

Elizabeth Rapley, The Dévotes. Women and Church in Seventeenth Century France Honorable Mention:Ian K. Steele, Betrayals. Fort William Henry and the “Massacre”  

Modris Ekstein, Rites of Sprint  

R. W. Kostal, Law and English Railway Capitalism 1825-1875 (Oxford: Clarendon Press). Honorable Mention:Daniel Vickers, Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 (University of North Carolina).  

Paul E. Lovejoy and Jan S. Hogendorn, Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936 (Cambridge University Press).  

Donald E. Ginter, A Measure of Wealth: The English LandTax in Historical Analysis (McGill-Queen’s University Press) Honorable Mention:Donald Harman Akenson, God’s Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel, and Ulster (McGill-Queen’s University Press)  

Michael Kater, The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich (Oxford University Press) Honorable Mentions:Bert S. Hall, Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe, (Johns Hopkins University Press)Elizabeth Vibert, Traders’ Tales: Narratives of Cultural Encounters in the Columbia Plateau, 1807-1846, (University of Oklahoma Press)  

John F. Hutchinson, Champions of Charity: War and the Rise of the Red Cross, (Westview Press) Honorable mentions:Marc Egnal, Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions have Shaped North American Growth, (Oxford University Press)Lynne Viola, Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance, (Oxford University Press)

Richard Boyer, Lives of the Bigamists: Marriage, Family, and Community in Colonial Mexico, (University of New Mexico Press) Honorable Mentions:Michael Fellman, Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman, (Random House)Ian J. Kerr, Building the Railways of the Raj, 1850-1900, (Oxford University Press)Linda Mahood, Policing Gender, Class and Family: Britain 1850-1940, (UCL Press)  

Michael Bliss, William Osler. A Life in Medicine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.William Osler. A Life in Medicine is a tour de force. With great style and unfailing empathy Michael Bliss establishes Osler’s significance in three countries as an observer and scholar of the natural history of disease, a teacher of the natural history of illness, and

Nicholas Rogers, Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain (Clarendon Press).Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain is a richly textured and brilliantly evocative study of the changing role of crowds in British politics in the period 1714-1821. In the tradition of Georges Rud and E.P. Thompson, but more extensively than either, it redefines the boundaries of the

John R. Hinde, Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000.This work by an historian who already has a deserved reputation stands out from a great number of studies that have been done for over a century of the great Swiss historian whose bibliography is very well known. John Hinde’s book