The shortlist has been selected for the $75,000 2024 Cundill History Prize, which is administered by McGill University and honors "the book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and diverse appeal." Three finalists will be announced October 3 and the winner October 30.
The shortlist:
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass (Knopf)
They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence by Lauren Benton (Princeton University Press)
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji (Yale University Press)
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal (Random House)
Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America by Andrew C. McKevitt (University of North Carolina Press)
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights by Dylan C. Penningroth (Liveright Publishing)
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid (Knopf)
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck, translated by David Colmer and David McKay (W.W. Norton)
