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2020
Winner
​Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend

Finalists
Tacky’s Revolt: the Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple

Shortlist
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 by Richard M Eaton
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry that Unravelled the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
Black Radical: the Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri Greenidge
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: a History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi
Providence Lost: the Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate by Paul Lay
Unworthy Republic: the Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt
2019
Winner
Maoism : A Global History by Julia Lovell

Finalists
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice by Mary Fulbrook
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore

Shortlist
Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History by Sunil Amrith
Orphans of Empire: The Fate of London's Foundlings by Helen Berry
Frederick Douglass: American Prophet by David Blight
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson

Longlist
The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction by Jay Geller
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 by Ramachandra Guha
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation by Steve Luxenberg
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by Jonathan Phillips
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century by Alexandra Popoff
I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux
2018
Winner
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World by Maya Jasanoff

Finalists
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America by Sam White

Shortlist
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
Grant by Ron Chernow
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by Joshua Freeman
A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War by Tim Grady
The Pope Who Would Be King by David I Kertzer

Longlist
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages by Geraldine Heng
The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany by David King
The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis by James E Lewis Jr
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles
2017
Winner
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars by Daniel Beer

Finalists
Vietnam: A New History by Christopher Goscha
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel

Longlist
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times by Christopher de Bellaigue
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald
Black Elk by Joe Jackson
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet by Lyndal Roper
Russia in Revolution: An Empire in crisis, 1890 to 1928 by Stephen Smith
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
2016
Winner
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains by Thomas W Laqueur

Finalists
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, The Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
2015
Winner
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan Pedersen

Finalists
Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth
2014
Winner
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary Bass

Finalists
The Bombing War: Europe, 1939-1945 by Richard Overy
Congo: The Epic History Of A People by David Van Reybrouck
2013
Winner
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 by Anne Applebaum

Finalists
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went To War In 1914 by Christopher Clark
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
2012
Winner
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, The West, And The Epic Story of The Taiping Civil War by Stephen Platt

Finalists
The Better Angels of our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes by Steven Pinker
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy by Andrew Preston
2011
Winner
Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age by Sergio Luzzatto

Finalists
Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
2010
Winner
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Finalists
The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale
Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla R Miller
2009
Winner
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory by Lisa Jardine

Finalists
Champlain’s Dream by David Hackett Fischer
The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hamalainen
2008
Winner
All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World by Stuart B Schwartz

Finalists
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold J Cook
Life and Death in the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche