The shortlist for the 2021 Cundhill History Prize, administered by McGill University in Montreal, has been announced. The winner, who receives $75,000, will be named October 20. Two runners up each receive $10,000.
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India by Manan Ahmed Asif (Harvard University Press)
Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust by Rebecca Clifford (Yale University Press)
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha Jones (Basic Books)
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars (The New Press)
An Infinite History: the Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries by Emma Rothschild (Princeton University Press)
White Freedom: the Racial History of an Idea by Tyler Stovall (Princeton University Press)
