Cundill History Prize: 2017

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The Cundill History Prize Nominees for Best History Writing in English

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Winner

The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars

Daniel Beer

Vintage / Knopf

Finalists

Vietnam: A New History

Christopher Goscha

Basic Books

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

Walter Scheidel

Princeton University Press

Longlist

Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary

Joe Jackson

Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Picador

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Thompson

Pantheon / Vintage

Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

Lyndal Roper

Random House / Random House Trade Paperbacks

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World

Christopher de Hamel

Penguin Press / Penguin Books

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

Frances FitzGerald

Simon & Schuster

The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times

Christopher de Bellaigue

Liveright

Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis 1890 to 1928

Stephen Smith

Oxford University Press

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