Cundill History Prize Winners

The Cundill History Prize (or simply Cundill Prize) previously Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, was founded in 2008 by Peter Cundill to recogni ...more

Winners

	Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend 4.10 avg rating — 1,907 ratings Cundill History Prize (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maoism by Julia Lovell really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 983 ratings Cundill History Prize (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World by Maya Jasanoff 4.10 avg rating — 914 ratings Cundill History Prize (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by Daniel Beer 3.98 avg rating — 435 ratings Cundill History Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains by Thomas W. Laqueur 3.93 avg rating — 146 ratings Cundill History Prize (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan Pedersen 3.99 avg rating — 85 ratings Cundill History Prize (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass 4.35 avg rating — 2,140 ratings Cundill History Prize (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum 4.07 avg rating — 6,331 ratings Cundill History Prize (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt 4.23 avg rating — 1,616 ratings Cundill History Prize (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age by Sergio Luzzatto 3.73 avg rating — 75 ratings Cundill History Prize (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch 4.12 avg rating — 5,944 ratings Cundill History Prize (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory by Lisa Jardine 3.51 avg rating — 262 ratings Cundill History Prize (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World by Stuart B. Schwartz 3.61 avg rating — 85 ratings Cundill History Prize (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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	Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok 4.27 avg rating — 769 ratings Cundill History Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by Mary Elise Sarotte 4.28 avg rating — 653 ratings Cundill History Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae M. Ngai 4.11 avg rating — 148 ratings Cundill History Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 5,569 ratings Cundill History Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 by Harald Jähner 4.08 avg rating — 2,917 ratings Cundill History Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire by Henrietta Harrison 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings Cundill History Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer (Goodreads Author) 4.46 avg rating — 2,620 ratings Cundill History Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism by J.P. Daughton 3.70 avg rating — 112 ratings Cundill History Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea by Tyler Stovall 4.17 avg rating — 155 ratings Cundill History Prize Nominee (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries by Emma Rothschild liked it 3.00 avg rating — 28 ratings Cundill History Prize Nominee (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars 4.07 avg rating — 164 ratings Cundill History Prize Nominee (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 662 ratings Cundill History Prize Nominee (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Overthrow of Europe's Empires in the East by Tim Harper 3.92 avg rating — 90 ratings Cundill History Prize Nominee (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau 3.83 avg rating — 640 ratings Cundill History Prize Nominee (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust by Rebecca Clifford 4.05 avg rating — 103 ratings Cundill History Prize Nominee (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India by Manan Ahmed Asif 3.92 avg rating — 64 ratings Cundill History Prize Nominee (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt 4.23 avg rating — 1,503 ratings Cundill History Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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