"…And yet science is only one segment of the West's intellectual heritage. There is the lamp of the humanities to be tended."
--Lionel Gelber
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| 2013 | Chrystia Freeland Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else ( Doubleday Canada and The Penguin Press ) |
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| 2012 | Ezra F. Vogel Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China ( Belknap Press of Harvard University Press ) |
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| 2011 | Shelagh Grant Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America ( Douglas & McIntyre. ) |
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| 2010 | Jay Taylor The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China ( Belknap Press of Harvard University Press ) |
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| 2009 | Sir Lawrence Freedman A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East ( Doubleday Canada ) |
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| 2008 | Paul Collier The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can be done About It ( Oxford University ) |
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| 2007 | Lawrence Wright The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 . (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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| 2006 | Adam Hochschild Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves. (Houghton Mifflin) |
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| 2004 | Steve Coll Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. (Penguin Press) |
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| 2003 | Ivo H.
Daalder and James M. Lindsay America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy. (Brookings Institution Press) |
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| 2002 | Walter
Russell Mead Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World. (Alfred A. Knopf) |
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| 2001 | Lord
Robert Skidelsky John Maynard Keynes, Fighting for Britain 1937-1946 (Macmillan) |
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| 2000 | Patrick
Tyler A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative History (Public Affairs) |
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| 1999 | Adam
Hochschild King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism In Colonial Africa (Houghton Mifflin Company) |
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| 1998 | Robert
Kinloch Massie Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa In the Apartheid Years (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) |
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| 1997 | Donavan
Webster Aftermath: The Remnants of War (Pantheon Books) |
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| 1996 | Vladislav
Zubok & Constantine Pleshakov Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev (Harvard University Press) |
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| 1995 | Eric
Hobsbawm Age of Extremes: The Short 20th Century (Michael Joseph) |
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| 1994 | Michael
Ignatieff Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New Nationalism (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) |
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| 1993 | Kanan
Makiya Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab World (W.W. Norton & Co.) |
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| 1992 | David
McCullough Truman (Simon & Shuster) |
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| 1991 | Dorothy
V. Jones Code of Peace: Ethics and Security in the World of Warlord States (University of Chicago Press) |
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| 1990 | Jonathan
D. Spence ( FIRST WINNER ) The Search for Modern China (W.W. Norton & Co.) |
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