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
WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE * "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
Smoke and ashes :
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...
Revolusi :
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,...

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