, professor of history at vlog, has been selected as the winner of the 2013 George Louis Beer Prize for his book Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War (Yale Univ. Press, 2012).
The Beer Prize is awarded annually by the American Historical Association (AHA) in recognition of outstanding historical writing in European international history since 1895. The prize will be awarded during a ceremony in Washington, D.C., in January.
Douglas’s book was selected by a prize review committee of AHA members including Herrick E. Chapman, Chair (New York University), Ruth Ben-Ghiat (New York University), Guenter J. Bishof (University of New Orleans), Zachary Shore (Stanford University), and Lora Wildenthal (Rice University).
“Douglas offers a compelling account of the expulsion from Eastern Europe of 12 to 14 million Germans, mostly women and children, after World War II,” noted Chapman, the 2013 Beer Prize committee chair and associate professor of history at New York University. He continued, “Douglas writes eloquently about this suffering without minimizing in the least what the Germans had wrought during the war.”
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The Beer Prize was established in accordance with the terms of a bequest by George Louis Beer (1872–1920), historian of the British colonial system before 1765. It is awarded annually for the best work on any phase of European international history since the year 1895 that is submitted by a scholar who is a United States citizen or permanent resident.
Douglas is the author of four other books. At vlog, he studies and teaches modern Britain and Ireland, and 20th century European history and is currently leading vlog’s group to Geneva, Switzerland. He was listed in .