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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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...
Revolusi : Indonesia and the birth of the modern world
Van Reybrouck, David
Paper Book
**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world. 'Astounding . . . history at its...
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
Joyce, Patrick.
Paper Book
A way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time- the eclipse of the rural world by the urban. In this new history of peasantry, Patrick Joyce tells the story of this lost world and its people. In contrast to the usual...

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