Cundill History Prize 2015-2021

by McGill University

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21 books

The Cundill History Prize recognizes and rewards the best history writing in English. 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.

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2021

Winner

Blood on the River

A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast

Marjoleine Kars, 2020

Finalists

Survivors

Children's Lives After the Holocaust

Rebecca Clifford, 2020

The Horde

How the Mongols Changed the World

Marie Favereau, 2021

2020

Winner

Fifth Sun

A New History of the Aztecs

Camilla Townsend, 2019

Finalists

Tacky's Revolt

The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

Vincent Brown, 2020

The Anarchy

The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

William Dalrymple, 2020

2019

Winner

Maoism

A Global History

Julia Lovell, 2019

Finalists

Reckonings

Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice

Mary Fulbrook, 2018

These Truths: A History of the United States

Jill Lepore, 2018

2018

Winner

The Dawn Watch

Joseph Conrad in a Global World

Maya Jasanoff, 2018

Finalists

Prairie Fires

The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Caroline Fraser, 2018

A Cold Welcome

The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America

Sam White, 2017

2017

Winner

The House of the Dead

Siberian Exile Under the Tsars

Daniel Beer, 2017

Finalists

Vietnam

Christopher Goscha, 2016

The Great Leveler

Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

Walter Scheidel, 2018

2016

Winner

The Work of the Dead

A Cultural History of Mortal Remains

Thomas W. Laqueur, 2018

Finalists

The Invention of Science

A New History of the Scientific Revolution

David Wootton, 2015

The Invention of Nature

Alexander Von Humboldt's New World

Andrea Wulf, 2015

2015

Winner

The Guardians

The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire

Susan Pedersen, 2015

Finalists

Empire of Cotton

A Global History

Sven Beckert, 2015

Eichmann Before Jerusalem

The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

Bettina Stangneth, 2015