Cundill History PrizeShortlist

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The Cundill History Prize recognizes and rewards the best history writing in show more English. The award is the largest non-fiction historical literature prize in the world given to an author whose work has had a profound literary, social and academic impact on the field.

A prize of US$75,000 is awarded annually to the book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal. The two runners-up each receive US$10,000.

Administered by McGill University in Montreal and awarded by a distinguished jury, the Cundill History Prize honours the abiding passion for history of its founder, F. Peter Cundill, by encouraging informed public debate through the wider dissemination of history writing to new audiences around the world.

Any historical period or subject is eligible, and translations into English are warmly welcomed. Books are accepted regardless of the nationality or place of residence of their authors. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (17), Finalist (51), Shortlist (88), Longlist (149), finalist (14)
Years:
All, 2023 (8), 2022 (8), 2021 (8), 2020 (11), 2019 (12), 2018 (8), 2017 (3), 2016 (3), 2015 (6), 2014 (3), 2013 (3), 2012 (3), 2011 (3), 2010 (3), 2009 (3), 2008 (3)

Shortlist 88

WorkYear
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan2023
The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution by Alison Bashford2023
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets by Matthew Connelly2023
The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance by Mackenzie Cooley2023
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions by Kate Cooper2023
Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India (South Asia in Motion) by Douglas Ober2023
Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future by James Morton Turner2023
The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson by Patrick Weil2023
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles2022
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer2022
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok2022
In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism by J. P. Daughton2022
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire by Henrietta Harrison2022
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 by Harald Jähner2022
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai2022
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by M. E. Sarotte2022
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars2021
Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust by Rebecca Clifford2021
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau2021
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India by Manan Ahmed Asif2021
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper2021
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones2021
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries by Emma Rothschild2021
White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea by Tyler Stovall2021
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend2020
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown2020
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple2020
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton2020
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 by Richard M. Eaton2020
The New Cambridge History of India: A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761 by Richard Maxwell Eaton2020
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas2020
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri K. Greenidge2020
Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi2020
Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate by Paul Lay2020
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt2020
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell2019
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell2019
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice by Mary Fulbrook2019
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore2019
Unruly Waters by Sunil Amrith2019
Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History by Sunil Amrith2019
Orphans of empire : the fate of London's foundlings by Helen Berry2019
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight2019
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice by Mary Fulbrook2019
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green2019
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson2019
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore2019
The dawn watch: Joseph Conrad in a global world by Maya Jasanoff2018
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser2018
A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America by Sam White2018
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum2018
Grant by Ron Chernow2018
Behemoth: a history of the factory and the making of the modern world by Joshua Benjamin Freeman2018
A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War by Tim Grady2018
The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe by David I. Kertzer2018
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by Daniel Beer2017
Vietnam: a new history by Christopher E. Goscha2017
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel2017
The work of the dead: a cultural history of mortal remains by Thomas W. Laqueur2016
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton2016
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf2016
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan Pedersen2015
Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert2015
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth2015
West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 by Claudio Saunt2015
Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina by Stuart B. Schwartz2015
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann2015
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass2014
The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy2014
Congo: The Epic History of a People by David Van Reybrouck2014
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum2013
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark2013
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall2013
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt2012
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker2012
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy by Andrew Preston2012
Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age by Sergio Luzzatto2011
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff2011
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder2011
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch2010
The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale2010
Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla R. Miller2010
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory by Lisa Jardine2009
Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer2009
The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen2009
All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World by Stuart B. Schwartz2008
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold J. Cook2008
Life and Death in the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche2008

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