{"id":117246,"date":"2025-09-03T17:30:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117246\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:30:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:30:04","slug":"books-on-social-movements-shortlisted-for-cundill-history-prize-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117246\/","title":{"rendered":"Books on social movements shortlisted for Cundill History Prize \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s Cundill History Prize short list comprises mainly books about social movements, which jurors say are of particular importance in today\u2019s political climate.<\/p>\n

The eight books in the running for the US$75,000 prize administered by McGill University include \u201cWages for Housework: The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise\u201d by Emily Callaci, which traces a global campaign that sprung up in the 1970s, and \u201cA Fractured Liberation: Korea Under U.S. Occupation,\u201d which explores how the American military extinguished the Korean independence movement.<\/p>\n

Also on the short list is a biography of the most pivotal figure in the Haitian Revolution, \u201cThe First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe\u201d by Marlene L. Daut and \u201cTo the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement\u201d by Benjamin Nathans.<\/p>\n

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Jurors also selected Lyndal Roper\u2019s \u201cSummer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants\u2019 War,\u201d which looks at the far-reaching implications of the 16th century revolt, and Sophia Rosenfeld\u2019s \u201cThe Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life\u201d outlines the rise of personal choice in the modern world.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the list are \u201cAmerica, Am\u00e9rica: A New History of the New World,\u201d a five-century narrative of North and South America by Greg Grandin, and \u201cThe Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West,\u201d about the Reconstruction era and westward expansion.<\/p>\n

Three finalists will be announced on Sept. 30 and the winner will be revealed on Oct. 30.<\/p>\n

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The Cundill jury says the shortlisted books \u201cilluminate untold histories, recover overlooked voices, and invite readers to reconsider how movements for justice and independence have shaped the world we live in today.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 2, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year\u2019s Cundill History Prize short list comprises mainly books about social movements, which jurors say are of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":["post-117246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}