Cundhill History Prize 2024

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Updated November 5, 2024
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Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
Bass, Gary J.
Paper Book
A Finalist for the 2024 Cundill History Prize Longlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize A Best Book of the Year in The Economist, Prospect, The Telegraph, TLS, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and...
Shadows at noon : the South Asian twentieth century
Chatterji, Joya
Paper Book
This book tells the story of South's Asia's twentieth century in eight chapters. Unlike standard narrative histories of the subcontinent that concentrate exclusively on politics, here nature, objects, technologies, cultures, and people's changing relationships to them and to each other, are central...
Smoke and ashes : opium's hidden histories
Ghosh, Amitav
Paper Book
France on trial : the case of Marshal Pétain
Jackson, Julian
Paper Book
Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than the photograph of Marshal Philippe Petain - the great French hero of the First World War - shaking the hand of Hitler on 20 October 1940. In a radio speech after this meeting, Petain said 'It is I alone who will be judged by...
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...

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