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
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 Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years Giancarlo Casale, The Ottoman Age of Exploration Marla Miller, Betsy Ross and the Making of America
2009 Lisa Jardine, Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory David Hackett Fischer, Champlain's Dream Pekka Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire
2008 Stuart B. Schwartz, All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World Harold J. Cook, Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age Peter Fritzsche, Vita e morte nel Terzo Reich (Life and Death in the Third Reich)
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