US$75,000 Cundill History Prize reveals longlist that spans the globe
US$75,000听are given to the winner, making the prize the richest non-fiction prize for a single work in English. The two runners up each receive a Recognition of Excellence Award worth US$10,000.
The eminent jury of five, under the chair of Margaret MacMillan, has chosen ten historians from five countries to be in the running for the prize in its 10th anniversary year.
Margaret MacMillan said: 鈥淥ur longlist reflects the exciting and varied state of history today. The books on it cover subjects from Vietnam to Native American history and range in time from prehistory to the present. These outstanding men and women authors come from around the world. It certainly wasn鈥檛 easy for our jury to whittle down over 300 entries into 10 but I am happy that we have come up with such a strong and interesting selection.鈥�
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Black Elk by Joe Jackson
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy by Heather Thompson
Martin Luther by Lyndal Roper
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsar by Daniel Beer
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times by Christopher de Ballaigue
Vietnam: A New History by Christopher Goscha
Russia in Revolution: An Empire in crisis, 1890 to 1928 by Stephen Smith
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Schneidel
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Margaret MacMillan is joined by the British-American historian and author Amanda Foreman, the award-winning Oxford Professor Roy Foster, the decorated Canadian journalist and author Jeffrey Simpson, and the Oxford Professor of Modern China Rana Mitter to judge the prize.
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The theme of religion features strongly on the list: in The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times, Christopher de Ballaigue challenges what we thought we knew about the history of the Islamic world.
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In the year that marks 500 years since reformation, Lyndal Roper鈥檚 Martin Luther reveals the often contradictory psychological forces that drove the man whose small act of protest turned into a battle against the power of the Church.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Frances FitzGerald tells the story of how the Christian evangelical movement has come to play such an influential role in the culture and politics of the USA. (The Evangelicals)
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With Walter Scheidel鈥檚 The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century, the jury has included a controversial work of economic history that provides important insights about why inequality is so persistent, and unlikely to go away.
Christopher de Hamel鈥檚 Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts explores nearly a thousand years of medieval history 鈥� by inviting readers into intimate conversations with twelve of the most famous manuscripts in existence.
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Stephen Smith delivers a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire 鈥� and what it might mean for us today (Russia in Revolution: An Empire in crisis, 1890 to 1928).
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Christopher Goscha looks at Vietnam鈥檚 diverse and divided past in Vietnam: A New History.
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Daniel Beer writes a new history of how the 19th century Tsars turned Siberia into a vast and brutal prison camp with The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsar.
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In Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy, Heather Thompson sheds new light on every aspect of the infamous uprising and its legacy 鈥� and gives voice to all those who had to fight forty-five-year to bring about justice.
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Joe Jackson鈥檚 Black Elk delivers the definitive history of the Native American holy man whose dramatic life converged with some of the most momentous events in the history of the American West.
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Seven publishers from three countries are represented on the longlist, including two imprints of Penguin Random House UK and one of Penguin Random House US. Publisher of the 2016 Cundill Prize winner (The Work of the Dead by Thomas W. Lacqueur), Princeton University Press, return with Walter Scheidel鈥檚 The Great Leveler. With six titles, the US is most strongly represented on the list. Four titles originate from the UK, one from Canada.
The three finalists will be announced by Margaret MacMillan at a press conference at Canada House in London on October 26. All three authors will attend the Cundill History Prize Gala in Montreal on November 16, where the winner will be announced.
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