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2023
Winners announced
2023
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Columbia University Press
Winner
2023
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University of California Press
Shortlisted
2023
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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
Cornell University Press
Winner
2021
The Wardian Case
The University of Chicago Press and Kew Publishing
Winner
2020
Yale University Press
Winner
2019
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Harper
Winner
2018
On the Stump: Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia by Sean Scalmer
Temple University Press
Winner
2017
Japanese War Criminals cover
Columbia University Press
Winner