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September 7th 2021 in News
The 2021 jurors have named 14 remarkable titles to the longlist for this year's Cundill History Prize. Publishers and authors have been informed.
The shortlist will be announced in a special virtual event on Thursday, September 23, 2021, delivered in partnership with Literary Hub. Chair of the Jury Michael Ignatieff will catch up with special guest 2020 winner Camilla Townsend before revealing alongside fellow 2021 jurors Eric Foner, Henrietta Harrison, Sunil Khilnani and Jennifer L. Morgan the 8 shortlisted books. Please READ MORE AND REGISTER NOW.
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Manan Ahmed Asif
The Loss of Hindustan: the Invention of India
Harvard University Press
Guy de la Bédoyère
Gladius: Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army
Little, Brown Book Group/The University of Chicago Press
Rebecca Clifford
Survivors: Children's Lives after the Holocaust
Yale University Press
Linda Colley
The Gun, the Ship and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Marie Favereau
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Tim Harper
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
Penguin Press, Penguin Random House
Shay Hazkani
Dear Palestine: a Social History of the 1948 War
Stanford University Press
Judith Herrin
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
Penguin Press, Penguin Random House/Princeton University Press
Martha Jones
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Hachette Book Group
Marjoleine Kars
Blood on the River: a Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
The New Press
Louis Menand
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Emma Rothschild
An Infinite History: the Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
Princeton University Press
Sujit Sivasundaram
Waves Across the South: a New History of Revolution and Empire
The University of Chicago Press/HarperCollins UK
Tyler Stovall
White Freedom: the Racial History of an Idea
Princeton University Press
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