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Dominic Sachsenmaier, President of the Toynbee Prize Foundation, delivered the following laudation in awarding the 2019 Toynbee Prize to Lauren Benton, Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Professor of History and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University.

JOSEPH SATISH … Matan Rochlitz, "Liberation of the Soul Through Diet - How a Jain Ascetic Lives," Aeon. Rajan Krishnan, "Patel Statue and Pillage of History," Frontline. "Too Late in the Day? Dr MS Swaminathan Clarifies His Views on GMO," Swarajya.

COLLIN BERNARD … Alex Traub, "India's Dangerous New Curriculum," New York Review of Books. Helen Thompson, "The Unintended Euro and the Problem of Italy," Speri Comment. Matthew Lee and Mark Stevenson, "US and Mexico Face Stark Choice as New President Takes Over," AP.

NATALIE BEHRENDS … Andrew Arsan, "New Texts Out Now: Lebanon, a Country in Fragments," Jadaliyya. Andrew Bacevich, "Zbigniew Brzeinski's Cold War," The Nation. John Connelly, "The Polish Predicament," LA Review of Books.

JAMES PARKER … David Olusoga, "Black Soldiers Were Expendable - Then Forgettable," The Guardian. Gaby Del Valle, "When Environmentalism Meets Xenophobia," The Nation. Laura Cole, "Untold History: The WWI Battles That Levelled East Africa," Al Jazeera.

The next year will see the culmination of a half decade of events celebrating and commemorating the centenary of the First World War - a year in which the focus will be on the conflict's aftermaths and consequences.

TIGER ZHIFU LI … Denise Fisher, "Explainer: New Caledonia's Independence Referendum, and How It Could Impact the Region," The Conversation. Yogita Limaye, "Sri Lanka Crisis: Ousted PM 'Has Confidence of Parliament'," BBC News.

COLLIN BERNARD … Quinn Slobodian, "Trump, Populists and the Rise of Right-Wing Globalization," The New York Times. Seyla Benhabib, "Below the Asphalt Lies the Beach," Boston Review. Nadezhda Azhgikhina, "Russia's Unlearned Lessons From the Failed Revolt of 1993," The Nation.

YEHOR BRAILIAN … Livia Gershon, 'The Problem With "Public Charge" Rules,' JSTOR Daily. Miles Larmer, 'Global History for Schools,' Historical Transactions. Rachel Dinning, '"There Was No Feeling Sorry For Themselves": Director Peter Jackson on the Soldiers of the First World War,' Historyextra.

Interconnectedness and integration of the local into global networks of empire, capitalism, migration, religion, solidarity, and intellectual exchange are pervasive themes in the field of global history.

JAMES PARKER … Silvia Federici, "Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women," New Frame. Yohannes Gedamu, "How Ethiopia's History of Ethnic Rivalry is Destabilizing Its Reform Gains," Quartz Africa. Nicholas Grant, "Nelson Mandela and the Racial Politics of US Imperialism," Africa is a Country.

NAGOTHU NARESH KUMAR … Joseph Preville, "Was Prophet Muhammad Really Illiterate? An Interview with Juan Cole," World Religion News. Livia Gershon, "Punishing Forgery with Death," JSTOR Daily. Lubna Irfan, "From Babur to Dara Shukoh: Fluid Sexuality Was Never 'Unnatural' During Mughal Era," DailyO.

COLLIN BERNARD … Adam Tooze, "Tempestuous Seasons," London Review of Books. Mike Davis, "Trumps America," Rebel. Holly Brewer, "Slavery-entangled Philosophy," Aeon. Sarah Jilani, "Shifting Sands," The Times Literary Supplement. MEGHNA CHAUDHURI … Nir Shafir, "Forging Islamic Science," Aeon.

FATMA ALADAG … Matthew Vitz, An Unlikely Environmentalism: Mexico City's Urban Ecological Thought in the Age of Development, Global Urban History. Faisal Devji, Will Saudi Arabia Cease to Be the Center of Islam?, The New York Times.