Year Author Title Result Ref. 2008 Stuart B. Schwartz All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World Winner [ 17] Harold J. Cook Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age Finalist [ a] [ 18] Peter Fritzsche Life and Death in the Third Reich Guy Beiner Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory Longlist [ 19] Sarah Carter The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 Matthew Connelly Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population John Darwin After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400–2000 Saul Friedländer The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945 Ramachandra Guha India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy Leor Halevi Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society Judith Herrin Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire Erez Manela The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism Gregg Mitman Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes Barrie Wilson How Jesus Became Christian Jason R. Young Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery Jury: Angela Schottenhammer, Denise Chong , Natalie Zemon Davis , Roger Chartier , Serge Joyal , and Timothy Aitken [ 20] 2009 Lisa Jardine Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory Winner [ 21] David Hackett Fischer Champlain's Dream Finalist [ a] [ 22] Pekka Hämäläinen The Comanche Empire Vincent Brown The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery Longlist [ 23] John Burrow A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century Woody Holton Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution Karl Jacoby Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History David Levering Lewis God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570–1215 Alex Ross The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century Moshik Temkin The Sacco–Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial Jury: Angela Schottenhammer, Denise Chong , Kenneth Whyte , Roger Chartier , Serge Joyal , and Timothy Aitken [ 24] 2010 Diarmaid MacCulloch A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years Winner [ 25] Giancarlo Casale The Ottoman Age of Exploration Finalist [ a] [ 26] Marla R. Miller Betsy Ross and the Making of America Michael Burleigh Moral Combat: A History of World War II Longlist [ 27] Linda Gordon Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits Francesca Trivellato The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period Jury: Adam Gopnik , Catherine Desbarats, Charles R. Kesler , Kenneth Whyte , and Lisa Jardine [ 28] 2011 Sergio Luzzatto Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age [ b] Winner [ 30] Maya Jasanoff Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World Finalist [ a] [ 31] Timothy Snyder Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin Jeremy D. Popkin You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery Longlist [ 32] Ulinka Rublack Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe Alan Taylor The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies Jury: Anthony Cary, Catherine Desbarats, Jeffrey Simpson , Ramachandra Guha , and Stuart B. Schwartz [ 33] 2012 Stephen R. Platt Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War Winner [ 34] Steven Pinker The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Finalist [ a] [ 35] Andrew Preston Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy Stephen Greenblatt The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Longlist [ 36] Julia Lovell The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China Anna Reid Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941–44 Jury: Charles R. Kesler , Garvin Brown, Jeffrey Simpson , and Vanessa Ruth Schwartz [ 37] 2013 Anne Applebaum Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956 Winner [ 38] Christopher Clark The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 Finalist [ 39] Fredrik Logevall Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam Christian Caryl Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century Shortlist [ 40] Lynne Olson Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939–1941 Tom Reiss The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Peter Brown Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD Honourable mention Yang Jisheng Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962 [ c] Jury: Anthony Cary, Garvin Brown, Marla R. Miller , Sergio Luzzatto , and Thomas H. B. Symons [ 42] 2014 Gary J. Bass The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide Winner [ 43] Richard Overy The Bombing War: Europe, 1939–1945 Finalist [ 44] David Van Reybrouck Congo: The Epic History of a People [ d] David Brion Davis The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation Shortlist [ 46] Andrew O'Shaughnessy The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire Geoffrey Wawro A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire Jury: Althia Raj , David Frum , Marla R. Miller , Stuart B. Schwartz , and Thomas H. B. Symons [ 47] 2015 Susan Pedersen The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire Winner [ 48] Sven Beckert Empire of Cotton: A Global History Finalist [ 49] Bettina Stangneth Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer [ e] Claudio Saunt West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 Shortlist [ 51] Stuart B. Schwartz Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina Nikolaus Wachsmann KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps Jury: Anna Porter , Anthony Cary, Chad Gaffield , David Frum , and Maya Jasanoff [ 52] 2016 Thomas W. Laqueur The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains Winner [ 53] David Wootton The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution Finalist [ a] [ 54] Andrea Wulf The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World Mary Beard SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome Longlist [ 55] Robert J. Gordon The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War Philippe Sands East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Jury: Anna Porter , David Frum , John Darwin , and Timothy Brook [ 56] 2017 Daniel Beer The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars Winner [ 57] Christopher Goscha Vietnam: A New History Finalist [ a] [ 58] Walter Scheidel The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century Christopher de Bellaigue The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason Longlist [ 59] Christopher de Hamel Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts Frances FitzGerald The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America Joe Jackson Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary Lyndal Roper Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet S. A. Smith Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 Heather Ann Thompson Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy Jury: Margaret MacMillan (chair), Amanda Foreman , R. F. Foster , Rana Mitter , and Jeffrey Simpson [ 60] 2018 Maya Jasanoff The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World Winner [ 61] Caroline Fraser Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder Finalist [ 62] Sam White A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America Anne Applebaum Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine Shortlist [ 63] Ron Chernow Grant Joshua B. Freeman Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World Tim Grady A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War David I. Kertzer The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe Geraldine Heng The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages Longlist [ 64] David King The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany James E. Lewis Jr. The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis Tiya Miles The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits Jury: Mark Gilbert (chair), Carol Berkin , Caroline Elkins , Peter Frankopan , and Jeffrey Simpson [ 65] 2019 Julia Lovell Maoism: A Global History Winner [ 66] Mary Fulbrook Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice Finalist [ 67] Jill Lepore These Truths: A History of the United States Sunil Amrith Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History Shortlist [ 68] Helen Berry Orphans of Empire: The Fate of London's Foundlings David W. Blight Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Toby Green A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution Victoria Johnson American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic Jay Howard Geller The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction Longlist [ 69] Ramachandra Guha Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914–1948 Steve Luxenberg Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation Jonathan Phillips The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin Alexandra Popoff Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century Sue Prideaux I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche Jury: Alan Taylor (chair), Charlotte Gray , Robert Gerwarth , Jane Kamensky , and Rana Mitter [ 70] 2020 Camilla Townsend Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs Winner [ 71] Vincent Brown Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War Finalist [ 72] William Dalrymple The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company Roderick Beaton Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation Shortlist [ 73] Richard M. Eaton India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765 Kim Ghattas Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East Kerri K. Greenidge Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter Rashid Khalidi The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 Paul Lay Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate Claudio Saunt Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory Zachary D. Carter The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes Longlist [ 74] Bathsheba Demuth Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait Eric Foner The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World Pekka Hämäläinen Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power John Henderson Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City Jury: Peter Frankopan (chair), Anne Applebaum , Lyse Doucet , Eliga Gould, and Sujit Sivasundaram [ 75] 2021 Marjoleine Kars Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast Winner [ 76] Rebecca Clifford Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust Finalist [ 77] Marie Favereau The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World Manan Ahmed Asif The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India Shortlist [ 78] Tim Harper Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire Martha S. Jones Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Emma Rothschild An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries Tyler Stovall White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea Linda Colley The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World Longlist [ 79] Guy de la Bédoyère Gladius: Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army Shay Hazkani Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War Judith Herrin Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe Louis Menand The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War Sujit Sivasundaram Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire Jury: Michael Ignatieff (chair), Eric Foner , Henrietta Harrison , Sunil Khilnani , and Jennifer L. Morgan [ 80] 2022 Tiya Miles All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Winner [ 81] Ada Ferrer Cuba: An American History Finalist [ 82] Vladislav M. Zubok Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union J. P. Daughton In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo–Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism Shortlist [ 83] Henrietta Harrison The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire Harald Jähner Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 [ f] Mae Ngai The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics M. E. Sarotte Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post–Cold War Stalemate Kelly Lytle Hernández Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands Longlist [ 85] Mark Mazower The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe Jing Tsu Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern Jury: J. R. McNeill (chair), Misha Glenny , Martha S. Jones , Yasmin Khan , and Kenda Mutongi [ 86] 2023 Tania Branigan Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution Winner [ 87] James Morton Turner Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future Finalist [ 88] Kate Cooper Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions Alison Bashford An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family Shortlist [ 89] Matthew Connelly The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets Mackenzie Cooley The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance Douglas Ober Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India Patrick Weil The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson Nandini Das Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire Longlist [ 90] Kerri K. Greenidge The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family Adam Hochschild American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis Natalie Koch Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia Janina Ramirez Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It Tara Zahra Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars Jury: Philippa Levine (chair), Marie Favereau , Adam Gopnik , Eve M. Troutt Powell , Sol Serrano, and Coll Thrush [ 91] 2024 Kathleen DuVal Native Nations: A Millennium in North America Winner [ 92] Gary J. Bass Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia Finalist [ 93] Dylan C. Penningroth Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights Lauren Benton They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence Shortlist [ 94] Joya Chatterji Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century Andrew C. McKevitt Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America Stuart A. Reid The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination David Van Reybrouck Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World [ g] Amitav Ghosh Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories Longlist [ 96] Catherine Hall Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism Julian Jackson France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain Patrick Joyce Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World Ruby Lal Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan Jury: Rana Mitter (chair), Nicole Eustace , Moses Ochonu , Rebecca L. Spang, and Stephanie Nolen [ 97] 2025 Lyndal Roper Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War Winner [ 98] Marlene L. Daut The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe Finalist [ 99] Sophia Rosenfeld The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life Emily Callaci Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor Shortlist [ 100] Kornel Chang A Fractured Liberation: Korea under US Occupation Greg Grandin America, América: A New History of the New World Benjamin Nathans To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement Martha A. Sandweiss The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West Manan Ahmed Asif Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore Longlist [ 101] Santilla Chingaipe Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia Jonathan Gienapp Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique Tiya Miles Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People Josephine Quinn How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History Seth Rockman Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery Sanjay Subrahmanyam Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440–1640 Jury: Ada Ferrer (chair), Sunil Amrith , François Furstenberg , Afua Hirsch , and Francesca Trivellato [ 102] 
