General History Prize

2022
Shortlist announced
2022
King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century
King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century
Andrew Fitzmaurice
Princeton University Press
Shortlisted
2022
Young Soeharto: The Making of a Soldier 1921–1945
Young Soeharto: The Making of a Soldier 1921–1945
David Jenkins
Melbourne University Publishing
Shortlisted
2022
The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change
The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change
Mina Roces
Cornell University Press
Shortlisted

Highly commended

2022
cover image of a matter of obscenity
The Politics of Censorship in Modern England
Christopher Hilliard
Princeton University Press
Highly commended
2022
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Delia Akeley & the Monkey: A Human-Animal Story of Captivity, Patriarchy and Nature
Iain McCalman
Upswell Publishing
Highly commended

The General History Prize ($15,000) is for a major work of non-fiction, published in book or ebook form, on international history that is of national or international significance.

Past winners

2021
The Wardian Case
The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World
Luke Keogh
The University of Chicago Press and Kew Publishing
Winner
2020
The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist
Kate Fullagar
Yale University Press
Winner
2019
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Sea People
Christina Thompson
Harper
Winner
2018
On the Stump: Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia by Sean Scalmer
On the Stump
Sean Scalmer
Temple University Press
Winner
2017
Japanese War Criminals cover
Japanese War Criminals
Sandra Wilson, Robert Cribb, Beatrice Trefalt and Dean Aszkielowicz
Columbia University Press
Winner