Eugen Weber Book Prize

The UCLA Department of History is pleased to announce that

OWEN WHITE and MARC ANDRÉ

have each won the 2024 Weber Book Prize and will be sharing the award. A prize for the best book in modern French history (post 1815) over the previous two years, this award is named for the eminent UCLA French historian Eugen Weber (1925-2007) and brings a cash award of $15,000.

Owen White, Professor of History at the University of Delaware, 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, Professor of History at Rouen University (France), 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.

The winning authors have been invited to visit UCLA to speak about their work and receive the prize on Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at 4 pm in 6275 Bunche Hall.

View Eugen Weber Book Talk Recording Here