Announcement made on Tuesday September 22 in the UK. Cundill Shortish list.
10 make short(ish)list
The shortlist for the 2020 Cundill History Prize was revealed on 22 September in a virtual event hosted by chair of the jury Peter Frankopan and jurors Anne Applebaum, Lyse Doucet, Eliga Gould and Sujit Sivasundaram. The award, which celebrates the best of the year’s history writing from around the world, has expanded its shortlist from eight to ten authors for the first time. This year’s finalists will be announced on 20 October, with the winner set to be revealed in November.
The full shortlist is as follows:
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation
by Roderick Beaton
(The University of Chicago Press/Penguin)
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
by Vincent Brown
(Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
by William Dalrymple
(Bloomsbury Publishing)
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765
by Richard M. Eaton
(University of California Press/Penguin)
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry that Unravelled the Middle East
by Kim Ghattas
(Headline/Henry Holt & Co)
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
by Kerri Greenidge
(Liveright Publishing)
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
by Rashid Khalidi
(Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company)
Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate
by Paul Lay
(Head of Zeus)
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
by Claudio Saunt
(WW Norton & Company)
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
by Camilla Townsend
(Oxford University Press USA)
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