Honors
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize, History, 1993
- Balzan Prize for History of the Humanities, 2002
- Honorary degree from Leiden University, 2006
- The Sigmund H. Danziger, Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities, University of Chicago, 2011
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