2024 Cundill History Prize Shortlist Announced
The shortlist for the 2024 Cundill History Prize has been announced. The finalists for Canada's annual $75,000 prize for history writing that "embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality, and diverse appeal" will be announced on October 3. A winner will be announced on October 30 during the Cundill History Prize Festival in Montreal.
The shortlist is as follows:
- Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass (Knopf)
- They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence by Lauren Benton (Princeton University Press)
- Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji (Yale University Press)
- Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal (Random House)
- Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America by Andrew C. McKevitt (University of North Carolina Press)
- Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights by Dylan C. Penningroth (Liveright)
- The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid (Knopf)
- Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck, translated by David Colmer and David McKay (Norton)