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General History Prize

2023
Winners announced
2023
Book cover
Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945
Michael Francis Laffan
Columbia University Press
Winner
2023
Book cover
Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism
Jarrod Hore
University of California Press
Shortlisted
2023
Book cover
Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500–1900
Una McIlvenna
Oxford University Press
Shortlisted

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

2022
The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change
The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change
Mina Roces
Cornell University Press
Winner
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
cover image of sea people
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