Cunhill History Prize 2024

Cundill History Prize 'which showcases the very best that’s being written in history.'

Updated September 18, 2024
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Judgment at Tokyo : World War II on trial and the making of modern Asia
Bass, Gary Jonathan
Paper Book
ACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR'S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST * 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER * 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * BEST BOOKS BY THE ECONOMIST, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, AND AIR MAIL * 10 ESSENTIAL BOOKS BY THE TELEGRAPH<...
Shadows at noon : the South Asian twentieth century
Chatterji, Joya
Paper Book
A groundbreaking view of South Asian history in the twentieth century that underlines the similarities and intertwined cultures of India and Pakistan   Winner of the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History * Shortlisted for the 2024...
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
DuVal, Kathleen.
Paper Book
"An essential American history" (The Wall Street Journal) that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today "A feat of both scholarship and...
Smoke and Ashes : Opium's Hidden Histories
Ghosh, Amitav.
Paper Book
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Foreign Policy, Literary Hub, and The Millions Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family―the climax of a yearslong project. When Amitav Ghosh began...
France on trial : the case of Marshal Pétain
Jackson, Julian
Paper Book
A Telegraph, Spectator, Prospect, and Times Best Book of the Year "Enthralling."―Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Review of Books "This is a story not just about Pétain but about war and resistance, the moral...
Gun country : gun capitalism, culture, and control in Cold War America
McKevitt, Andrew C.
Paper Book
Just as World War II transformed the United States into a global military and economic superpower, so too did it forge the gun country America is today. After 1945, war-ravaged European nations possessed large surpluses of mass-produced weapons, and American entrepreneurs seized the opportunity to...
The Lumumba plot : the secret history of the CIA and a Cold War assassination
Reid, Stuart A.
Paper Book
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice . A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller-about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR- The New Yorker,...
Remembering Peasants : A Personal History of a Vanished World
Joyce, Patrick.
Paper Book
"I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book...there are clues and messages for every fortunate reader who picks it up." --Annie Proulx *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* A landmark history of the peasant...

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