2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding

The non-fiction book prize recognises work that searches for truth and reason in difficult places, and shines a light on the connections and divisions that shape cultural identity worldwide.

Updated October 2, 2024
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Material world : a substantial story of our past and future
Conway, Ed
Paper Book
**Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award** *Longlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Writing Prize* Picked as a Book of the Year by THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST and NEW STATESMAN A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week ...
The secret lives of numbers : a global history of mathematics & its unsung trailblazers
Kitagawa, Kate
Paper Book
A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths 'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday Times Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental...
The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 1492
Norton, Marcy
Paper Book
A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. When the men and women of the island of Guanahani first made contact with Christopher Columbus and his crew on October 12...
Smoke and ashes : opium's hidden histories
Ghosh, Amitav
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 'An acerbic, compelling and always accessible account of how opium corrupted the world' TLS 'The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye for story superb' Sunday Telegraph
Language city : the fight to preserve endangered mother tongues
Perlin, Ross.
Paper Book
A captivating portrait of contemporary New York City, the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet, told through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages.
Divided : racism, medicine and why we need to decolonise healthcare
Sowemimo, Annabel
Paper Book
A vital, eye-opening exploration of race and health

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