2024
Finalsts
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary Bass
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights by Dylan C Penningroth
Shortlist
They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence by Lauren Benton
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji
Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America by Andrew C McKevitt
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A Reid
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck translated by David Colmer & David McKay
Longlist
Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism by Catherine Hall
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain by Julian Jackson
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World by Patrick Joyce
Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan by Ruby Lal
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary Bass
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights by Dylan C Penningroth
Shortlist
They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence by Lauren Benton
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji
Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America by Andrew C McKevitt
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A Reid
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck translated by David Colmer & David McKay
Longlist
Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism by Catherine Hall
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain by Julian Jackson
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World by Patrick Joyce
Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan by Ruby Lal
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2023Winner
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan Finalists Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions by Kate Cooper Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future by James Morton Turner Shortlist The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution by Alison Bashford The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals about America's Top Secrets by Matthew Connelly The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance by Mackenzie Cooley Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India by Douglas Ober The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Frued, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson by Patrick Weil Longlist Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of the Empire by Nandini Das The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K Greenidge American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia by Natalie Koch Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars by Tara Zahra |
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2022Winner
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles Finalists Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M Zubok Shortlist In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism by JP Daughton The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire by Henrietta Harrison Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 by Harald Jahner translated by Shaun Whiteside The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by ME Sarotte Longlist Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernandez The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China by Jing Tsu |
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2021Winner
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars Finalists Survivors: Children's Lives after the Holocaust by Rebecca Clifford The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau Shortlist The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India by Manan Ahmed Asif Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S Jones An Infinite History: the Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries by Emma Rothschild White Freedom: the Racial History of an Idea by Tyler Stovall Longlist The Gun, the Ship and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley Gladius: Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army by Guy de la Bedoyere Dear Palestine: a Social History of the 1948 War by Shay Hazkani Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire by Sujit Sivasundaram |
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2020Winner
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 Longlist The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D Carter Floating Coast: an Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World by Johanna Katrin Fridriksdottir Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hamalainen Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City by John Henderson |
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2019Winner
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 |
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2018Winner
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 |
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2017Winner
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 |
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2016Winner
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 |
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2015Winner
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 |
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2014Winner
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 |
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2013Winner
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 |
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2012Winner
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 |
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2011Winner
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 |
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2010Winner
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 |
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2009Winner
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 |
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2008Winner
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 |
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