2024 Weber Book Prize Awarded to Two Historians

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The 2024 Weber Book Prize was awarded to two historians at the annual American Historical Association (AHA) Meeting.

  • Owen White, Professor of History at the University of Delaware, for his book The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria (Harvard University Press), a deeply researched and elegantly written history of Algeria told through wine, which was introduced by the French, controlled by the colonists, and then finally largely dismantled by independent Algeria.

 

 

 

 

  • Marc André, Maitre de conférences à l’université de Rouen-Normandie, chercheur à l’Institut d’histoire du temps présent (IHTP, France) for his book Une prison pour mémoire: Montluc, de 1944 à nos jours (ENS Éditions), a remarkable combination of history, memory studies, and museology based on original research in prison documents using interviews with Algerians sentenced to death during the Algerian war, conscientious objectors, and a host of others. Montluc was a notorious Gestapo prison also used to house those who opposed the Algerian War.