Cundill History PrizeFinalist

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The Cundill History Prize recognizes and rewards the best history writing in toon meer English. The award is the largest non-fiction historical literature prize in the world given to an author whose work has had a profound literary, social and academic impact on the field.

A prize of US$75,000 is awarded annually to the book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal. The two runners-up each receive US$10,000.

Administered by McGill University in Montreal and awarded by a distinguished jury, the Cundill History Prize honours the abiding passion for history of its founder, F. Peter Cundill, by encouraging informed public debate through the wider dissemination of history writing to new audiences around the world.

Any historical period or subject is eligible, and translations into English are warmly welcomed. Books are accepted regardless of the nationality or place of residence of their authors. toon minder
Stages:
Alle, Winner (17), Finalist (51), Shortlist (88), Longlist (149), finalist (14)
Jaren:
Alle, 2023 (6), 2022 (3), 2021 (3), 2020 (3), 2019 (3), 2018 (3), 2017 (3), 2016 (3), 2015 (3), 2014 (3), 2013 (3), 2012 (3), 2011 (3), 2010 (3), 2009 (3), 2008 (3)

Finalist 51

WerkJaar
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution door Tania Branigan2023
The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution door Alison Bashford2023
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets door Matthew Connelly2023
The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance door Mackenzie Cooley2023
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions door Kate Cooper2023
Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India (South Asia in Motion) door Douglas Ober2023
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake door Tiya Miles2022
Cuba: An American History door Ada Ferrer2022
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union door Vladislav M. Zubok2022
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast door Marjoleine Kars2021
Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust door Rebecca Clifford2021
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World door Marie Favereau2021
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs door Camilla Townsend2020
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War door Vincent Brown2020
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire door William Dalrymple2020
Maoism: A Global History door Julia Lovell2019
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice door Mary Fulbrook2019
These Truths: A History of the United States door Jill Lepore2019
The dawn watch: Joseph Conrad in a global world door Maya Jasanoff2018
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder door Caroline Fraser2018
A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America door Sam White2018
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars door Daniel Beer2017
Vietnam: a new history door Christopher E. Goscha2017
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century door Walter Scheidel2017
The work of the dead: a cultural history of mortal remains door Thomas W. Laqueur2016
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution door David Wootton2016
De uitvinder van de natuur door Andrea Wulf2016
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire door Susan Pedersen2015
Empire of Cotton: A Global History door Sven Beckert2015
Eichmann in Argentinië het onbezorgde leven van een oorlogsmisdadiger door Bettina Stangneth2015
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide door Gary J. Bass2014
The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 door Richard Overy2014
Congo door David Van Reybrouck2014
IJzeren Gordijn: de inlijving van Oost-Europa 1944-1956 door Anne Applebaum2013
Slaapwandelaars door Christopher Clark2013
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam door Fredrik Logevall2013
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War door Stephen R. Platt2012
Ons betere ik waarom de mens steeds minder geweld gebruikt door Steven Pinker2012
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy door Andrew Preston2012
Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age door Sergio Luzzatto2011
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World door Maya Jasanoff2011
Bloedlanden Europa tussen Hitler en Stalin door Timothy Snyder2011
De geschiedenis van het Christendom door Diarmaid MacCulloch2010
The Ottoman Age of Exploration door Giancarlo Casale2010
Betsy Ross and the Making of America door Marla R. Miller2010
Gedeelde weelde : hoe de zeventiende-eeuwse cultuur van de Lage Landen Engeland veroverde en veranderde door Lisa Jardine2009
Champlain's Dream door David Hackett Fischer2009
The Comanche Empire door Pekka Hämäläinen2009
All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World door Stuart B. Schwartz2008
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age door Harold J. Cook2008
Life and Death in the Third Reich door Peter Fritzsche2008

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