{"id":1423,"date":"2021-11-04T15:48:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T19:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2021-11-04T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T19:49:06","slug":"redpath-book-display-cundill-history-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/redpath-book-display-cundill-history-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Redpath Book Display: Cundill History Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Each year the Cundill History Prize, administered by McGill University and selected by an international jury, recognizes a book that \u201cembodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal.\u201d It is the most lucrative prize of its kind, with winners receiving an award of US$75,000 and two runners-up receiving US$10,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s finalists are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Rebecca Clifford, <em>Survivors: Children&#8217;s Lives After the Holocaust<\/em> (Yale UP)<\/li><li>Marie Favereau, <em>The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World<\/em> (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)<\/li><li>Marjoleine Kars, <em>Blood on the River: a Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast<\/em> (The New Press)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner will be announced December 2nd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2021\/11\/Cundill2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2021\/11\/Cundill2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The Cundill History Prize Book Display in Redpath\" class=\"wp-image-1747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2021\/11\/Cundill2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2021\/11\/Cundill2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2021\/11\/Cundill2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2021\/11\/Cundill2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2021\/11\/Cundill2-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2021\/11\/Cundill2.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To highlight the achievements of this year&#8217;s nominees, as well as those of previous years, the Humanities and Social Sciences Library has put together a book display on the main floor of the Redpath Library Building. It consists of longlisted, shortlisted, and finalist titles from the past several years. Please take a look and borrow one today! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year the Cundill History Prize, administered by McGill University and selected by an international jury, recognizes a book that \u201cembodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal.\u201d It is the most lucrative prize of its kind, with winners &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/redpath-book-display-cundill-history-prize\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":1747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-displays","tag-book-display"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}