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Past Winners of the David J. Weber Book Prize

Book Prize

2022	*A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community*	Natalia Molina	Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022
2021	*Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands*	Paul Barba	Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021
2020	*Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement*	Jennifer Holland	Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020
2019	These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912	Maurice Crandall	Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019
2018	Hopi Runners: Crossing the Terrain between Indian and American	Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert	Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018
2017	Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands	Julian Lim	Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017
2016	*Three Roads to Magdalena: Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland, 1890-1990*	David Wallace Adams	Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016
2015	Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850	Andrew J. Torget	Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015
2014	Power Lines:Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest	Andrew Needham	Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014
2013	*Miera y Pacheco: A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico*	John L. Kessell	Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013
2012	*Chiricahua and Janos: Communities of Violence in the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680-1880*	Lance R. Blyth	Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2012

2011	*A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest*	William deBuys	New York: Oxford University Press, 2011
2010	*Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol*	Kelly Lytle Hernandez	Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010
2009	*The Father of All: the de la Guerra Family: Power and Patriarchy in Mexican California*	Louise Pubols	Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009
2008	*The Comanche Empire*	Pekka Hämäläinen	New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008
2007	*Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands*	Juliana Barr	Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008
2006	*Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West*	Ned Blackhawk	Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006
2005	*Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family*	Claudio Saunt	New York: Oxford University Press, 2005
2004	*The River Has Never Divided Us: A Border History of La Junta de los Rios*	Jefferson Morgenthaler	Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004
2003	*Scenes from the High Desert: Julian Steward’s Life and Theory*	Virginia Kerns	Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003
2002	*Print the Legend: Photography and the American West*	Martha Sandweiss	New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002
2001	*A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell*	Donald Worster	New York: Oxford University Press, 2001
2000	*At the judges’ discretion, no prize was awarded*
1999	*Salt Dreams: Land & Water in Low-Down California*	William deBuys; photographs by Joan Myers	Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.