Premio Cundill

Cundill History Prize
	Riconoscimento assegnato alla miglior opera di saggistica storica
Assegnato da	Università McGill
Intitolato a	Peter Cundill
Paese	Canada
Anno inizio	2008
Sito web	www.cundillprize.com
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Il Premio Cundill (Cundill History Prize), è un premio letterario canadese assegnato alla miglior opera di saggistica storica in grado di unire l'erudizione ai meriti letterari.

Aperto ad autori provenienti da tutto il mondo purché tradotti in inglese, è stato istituito nel 2008 dall'investitore e filantropo Francis Peter Cundill.

Amministrato dall'Università McGill, riconosce al vincitore un premio di 75000 dollari, mentre ogni finalista ne riceve 10000.

Albo d'oro

In grassetto i vincitori 2026

Beth Lew-Williams, John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial Law
Jonathan Cheng, Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea's Personality Cult
Alexander Lee, The First Ghetto: Venice and the Jews

2025

Lyndal Roper, Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
Marlene L. Daut, The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
Sophia Rosenfeld, The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life

2024

Kathleen DuVal, Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
Gary J. Bass, Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
Dylan C. Penningroth, Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

2023

Tania Branigan, Red Memory: Living, remembering and forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution
Kate Cooper, Queens of a Fallen World: The lost women of Augustine’s Confessions
James Morton Turner, Charged: A history of batteries and lessons for a clean energy future

2022

Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Ada Ferrer, Cuba: An American History
Vladislav Zubok, Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

2021

Marjoleine Kars, Blood on the River: a Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
Rebecca Clifford, Survivors: Children’s Lives after the Holocaust
Marie Favereau, The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

2020

Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
Vincent Brown, Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of An Atlantic Slave War
William Dalrymple, Anarchia (The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company)

2019

Julia Lovell, Maoism: A Global History
Mary Fulbrook, Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice
Jill Lepore, Queste verità: una storia degli Stati Uniti d'America (These Truths: A History of the United States)

2018

Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sam White, A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America

2017

Daniel Beer, La casa dei morti: la Siberia sotto gli zar (The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars)
Christopher Goscha, Vietnam: A New History
Walter Scheidel, La grande livellatrice: violenza e disuguaglianza dalla preistoria a oggi (The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century)

2016

Thomas W. Laqueur, The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
David Wootton, La scintilla della creazione: come le invenzioni dell'uomo hanno trasformato il mondo (The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution)
Andrea Wulf, L'invenzione della natura (The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World)

2015

Susan Pedersen, The Guardians: The League of Nations and the crisis of Empire
Sven Beckert, L'impero del cotone: una storia globale (Empire of Cotton: A Global History)
Bettina Stangneth, La verità del male: Eichmann prima di Gerusalemme (Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer )

2014

Gary J. Bass, The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
Richard Overy, The Bombing War: Europe 1939-45
David Van Reybrouck, Congo (Congo. Een geschiedenis)

2013

Anne Applebaum, La cortina di ferro. La disfatta dell'Europa dell'Est, 1944-1956 (ron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956)
Christopher Clark, I sonnambuli: come l'Europa arrivò alla Grande Guerra (The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went To War In 1914)
Fredrik Logevall, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam

2012

Stephen Platt, Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, The West, and The Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Steven Pinker, Il declino della violenza (The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined)
Andrew Preston, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy

2011

Sergio Luzzatto, Padre Pio. Miracoli e politica nell'Italia del Novecento (Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age)
Timothy D. Snyder, Terre di sangue. L'Europa nella morsa di Hitler e Stalin (Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin)
Maya Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

2010