Introducing the 2022 shortlist.

In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism

J.P. Daughton

(W. W. Norton & Company)

Cuba: An American History

Ada Ferrer

(Scribner)

The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire

Henrietta Harrison

(Princeton University Press)

Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich

Harald Jähner

Translated by Shaun Whiteside

(Ebury, PRH)

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Tiya Miles

(Random House)

The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics

Mae Ngai

(W. W. Norton & Company)

Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate

M.E. Sarotte

(Yale University Press)

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

Vladislav M. Zubok

(Yale University Press)