August 1st 2024 in News

The 2024 Cundill History Prize Longlist

The jurors have chosen 13 exceptional titles to be longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize.

The shortlist will be announced on Thursday, September 5, 2024.

Chair of Jury, Rana Mitter, said: “This is a longlist which showcases the very best that’s being written in history, with topics from around the globe and stretching over immense lengths of time. We move from Indonesia to Central America to the liberation struggles of Congo; from a long-range history of Indigenous peoples in North America to court life in Mughal India to the legacy of wartime France. Issues in the headlines gain depth through reading our longlist: the intertwining of enslavement and capitalism, the power of firearms to shape society, and the legal aftermath of war. All of these books combine superb research with compelling prose – we congratulate all 13 of the longlisted authors.”

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The 2024 Cundill History Prize Longlist

• Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
  Gary J. Bass
  (Picador, Pan Macmillan)

• They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
  Lauren Benton
  (Princeton University Press)

• Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

Joya Chatterji
(The Bodley Head, VINTAGE / Yale University Press)

• Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal
(Penguin Random House)

• Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories
  Amitav Ghosh
  (John Murray, Hachette)

• Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism
  Catherine Hall
  (Cambridge University Press)

• France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
  Julian Jackson
  (Belknap Press)

• Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
  Patrick Joyce
  (Scribner)

• Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
  Ruby Lal
  (Yale University Press)

• Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America
  Andrew C. McKevitt
  (University of North Carolina Press)

• Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
  Dylan C. Penningroth
  (Liveright Publishing)

• The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
  Stuart A. Reid
  (Alfred A. Knopf)

• Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
  David Van Reybrouck, translated by David Colmer and David McKay
  (The Bodley Head, VINTAGE / W. W. Norton)