2021
Ronald Grigor Suny
Princeton University Press
2020
John Bellamy Foster
The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
To view John Bellamy Foster’s 2021 Deutscher Lecture, please click here.
2019
Brett Christophers
The New Enclosure The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain
To view Brett Christophers’ 2020 Deutscher Lecture, please click here.
2018
Kohei Saito
Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy
Monthly Review
2017
William Clare Roberts
Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital
Princeton University Press
2016
Andreas Malm
Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
Verso
2015
Tamás Krausz
Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography
Monthly Review
2014
Roland Boer
In The Vale of Tears: On Marxism and Theology V
Brill
2013
Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch
The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire
Verso
2012
David McNally
Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism
Brill
2011
Jairus Banaji
Theory as History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation
Brill
2010
David Harvey
The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism
Profile Books
2009
Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine
From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics
Routledge
2008
Kees van der Pijl
Nomads, Empires, States: Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy
Pluto Press
2007
Rick Kuhn
Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism
University of Illinois Press
2006
Chris Wickham
Framing the Early Middle Ages, Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800
Oxford University Press
2005
Kevin Murphy
Revolution and Counterrevolution, Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory
Berghahn Books
2004
Michael A. Lebowitz
Beyond Capital. Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class (2nd Edition)
Palgrave Macmillan
2003 (Joint Award)
Neil Davidson
Discovering the Scottish Revolution
Pluto Press
Benno Teschke
The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics, and the Making of Modern International Relations
Verso
2002
Brian Kelly
Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21
University of Illinois Press
2001
James Holstun
Ehud’s Dagger: Class Struggle in the English Revolution
Verso
2000
Peter Gowan
The Global Gamble: Washington’s Faustian Bid for World Dominance
Verso
1999
Francis Wheen
1998
Not Awarded
1997
Robin Blackburn
The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800
Verso
1996
Donald Sassoon
One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century
I.B.Tarius
1995
Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991
M. Joseph
1994
Justin Rosenberg
The Empire of Civil Society: A Critique of the Realist Theory of International Relations
Verso
1993
Harvey J. Kaye
The Education of Desire: Marxists and the Writing of History
Routledge
1992
Len Doyal and Ian Gough
A Theory of Human Need
Macmillan
1991
Mike Davis
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Vintage Books
1990
Arno J. Mayer
Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The Final Solution in History
Verso
1989
Terry Eagleton
The Ideology of Aesthetic
Blackwell
1988
Boris Kagarlitsky
Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State 1917 to the Present
Verso
1987
Teodor Shanin
Russia, 1905-07: Revolution as a Moment of Truth
Macmillan
1986
Ellen Meiksins Wood
The Retreat from Class: A New “True” Socialism
Verso
1985
Robert Brenner
The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-industrial Europe
Cambridge University Press
1984
Margaret A. Rose
Marx’s Lost Aesthetic: Karl Marx and the Visual Arts
Cambridge University Press
1983
Barbara Taylor
Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Virago
1982
G. E. M. de Ste. Croix
The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests
Duckworth
1981
Neil Harding
Lenin’s Political Thought
Macmillan
1980
Bob Rowthorn
Capitalism, Conflict and Inflation: Essays in Political Economy
Lawrence & Wishart
1979
G. A. Cohen
Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence
Oxford University Press
1978
Rudolf Bahro
The Alternative in Eastern Europe
NLB
1977
S. S. Prawer
Karl Marx and World Literature
Verso
1976
Wlodzimierz Brus
Socialist Ownership and Political Systems
RKP
1975
Marcel Liebman
Leninism under Lenin
Cape
1974
Maxime Rodinson
1973
Lucio Colleti
From Rousseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Society
NLB
1972
Paul Walton and Andrew Gamble
From Alienation to Surplus Value
Macmillan
1971
Not Awarded
1970
Istvan Meszaros
Marx’s Theory of Alienation
Merlin
1969
Martin Nicolaus
The Unknown Marx
New Left Review
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