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Cundill History Prize 2017
The 2017 Cundill History Prize went to The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by Daniel Beer. 3 books were finalists and 10 books made the longlist.
Winner
- The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsarssource (opens in a new tab)
Finalists
- The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Centurysource (opens in a new tab)
- Vietnam: A New Historysource (opens in a new tab)
Longlist
- Black Elksource (opens in a new tab)
- Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacysource (opens in a new tab)
- Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophetsource (opens in a new tab)
- Meetings with Remarkable Manuscriptssource (opens in a new tab)
- Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928source (opens in a new tab)
- The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape Americasource (opens in a new tab)
- The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Timessource (opens in a new tab)
About the Cundill History Prize
Cundill History Prize (McGill University), 2008-2025, one category labelled History. Year is the prize year the body uses (cundillprize.com/winners/<year>), i.e. the year announced and awarded. Levels: Winner; Finalist = every shortlisted non-winner, i.e. the two Recognition of Excellence runners-up plus the rest of any longer shortlist (2013-2015 shortlists of 6, 2018-2025 shortlists of 8, 2020 shortlist of 10); Longlist = longlisted but not shortlisted, where a longlist was published (2008-2012, 2016-2025; 2008-2012 and 2016-2017 went straight from longlist to three finalists). 2013 had no longlist; the two honourable mentions announced with the 2013 shortlist (Peter Brown, Yang Jisheng) are recorded as Longlist as the nearest lower tier. Winner and finalists cite cundillprize.com/winners/<year>; other tiers cite the body's announcement pages (McGill Newsroom for 2008-2016, cundillprize.com/news from 2017). Fallbacks: 2010 longlist from the archived McGill prize site (web.archive.org); 2011 longlist from a National Post article (no body page found); 2023 longlist page is now a 404 on cundillprize.com, so it cites the web.archive.org copy. Wikipedia's Cundill History Prize table was used to cross-check every year. Titles follow the body's pages (often UK edition titles); expected counts are the books on the longlist page (or the 2013-2015 shortlist page, which lists every book that year).
Organization: McGill University. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)
Shares the most books with
- Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 15 shared books
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 14 shared books
- National Book Critics Circle Awards 13 shared books
- Wolfson History Prize 13 shared books
- J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Project 11 shared books