Professor Richard Bourke was jointly awarded the 2015 István Hont Book Prize for his Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke. The prize is awarded by the University of St. Andrews Institute of Intellectual History for the best book published in intellectual history in any calendar year. For further details on the prize, please click here. The István Hont Book Prize is the most recent accolade for Empire and Revolution, which has also received an Honourable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Biography and Autobiography (Association of American Publishers), and is considered to be among the Best Books of 2015 by publications such as the Irish Times, The Guardian and The Spectator.