Cundhill History Prize 2024

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

Updated November 5, 2024
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
DuVal, Kathleen.
Paper Book
"A magisterial overview of a thousand years of Native American history" (The New York Review of Books), from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE, THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE, AND THE...
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
Bass, Gary J.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE ARTHUR ROSS BOOK AWARD FROM THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS * 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<...
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...
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
Penningroth, Dylan C.
Paper Book
The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America's legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police and judges often closed their eyes, if they didn't join in. For Black...
Revolusi : Indonesia and the birth of the modern world
Van Reybrouck, David
Paper Book
On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and, on behalf of 68 million compatriots, announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world, inhabiting islands that span an eighth of the globe, Indonesia became the...
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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