On October 20, the Candir History Prize, the highest prize money in the non-fiction history awards, announced the three historical books that eventually reached the final. Jury President Ye Litin has declared that he will use this Edition of the Candir Prize to find great historical writings to change our understanding of the contemporary world; Judge Eric Fontaine believes that they embody the best historical categories and academic insights today; and Sunil Kirnani, a professor of politics and history at Ashoka University, said that in these uncertain times, these works aptly embody the value of historical perspectives for our time.
Written by | Yan Bu Ploughing
On October 20, the shortlist for the highly anticipated Cundill History Prize of McGill was released live on the virtual platform, announced by Jury Chair Ye Liting, and Canadian historian Rebecca Clifford with "Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust." Holocaust, Yale University Press), French historian Marie Favereau, with The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, and American historian Marjorie Favereau, and The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World, and the American historian Marjorie Favereau. Marjoleine Kars reached the finals with "Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast, The New Press," competing for the $75,000 Candir History Award, with the other two winning the $10,000 Candir Excellence Award each. The event, which is the world's highest-paying non-fiction award, was broadcast live on the award's YouTube channel and on the Frankfurt Book Fair website, and was simultaneously broadcast live at the book fair.
The Candil History Prize (full name McGill University Candil History Prize) annually selects the most socially and academically influential works from non-fiction works published in the field of historical research published in the previous year, and was created by the late F. Peter Cundill (1938-2011), a distinguished alumnus of McGill University and a global investor, to recognize works of English history that are "academic, original, literary, and popular." Peter Candil, a distinguished alumnus of McGill University, is not only a globally renowned investor but also a voracious reader with an enduring passion for travel and history: he believed that only by first understanding the past could it be possible to understand the present and have a insightful perspective on the future, which led him to create the Candil History Prize.
The Candil History Prize, managed by McGill University in Montreal, awards historical works with a certain academic depth, originality, expressiveness, and a wide readership. Every year, McGill University selects at least 5 scholars and experts from all over the world to form an independent jury to commemorate the contribution and extraordinary enthusiasm of its founder, Peter Kandil, to historical research by encouraging wider academic discussion and disseminating historical writing to a new generation of audiences, regardless of historical periods or themes, and welcomes entries in English translations, which are not limited by the author's nationality and residence.
Known to Chinese readers, Pei Shifeng (author of "Autumn of Heaven", "Twilight of the Empire"), Anne Applebaum (author of Gulag: A History, Twilight of Democracy: The Temptation of Authoritarianism), Daniel Beal (author of "The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile during the Tsar's Reign"), Thomas Rakol (author of "Lonely Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation"), William Darlingpur ("The Return of the King: The War of Afghanistan 1839-1842"), "Xenadu: In Search of Marco Polo" (author of "The Return of the King: The War of Afghanistan 1839-1842"), "Senado: In Search of Marco Polo" Author of Polo's Footsteps), Lan Shiling (author of The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and China's Nirvana), Maya Yasanov (author of "Waiting for the Dawn", "The Exile of Freedom", "Edge of empire"), etc. have all been shortlisted or won the Candir History Prize. Since the inception of the Candir History Prize in 2008, the laureates have been Stuart M. B. Stuart B. Schwartz (2008), Lisa Jardine (2009), Diarmaid MacCulloch (2010), Sergio Luzzatto (2011), Stephen Platt (2012), Anne Applebaum (2013). ), Gary Bass (2014), Susan Pedersen (2015), Thomas W. Laqueur (2016), Daniel Beer (2017), Maya Jasanoff (2018), Julia Lovell (2019) and Camilla Lee. Townsend (Camilla Townsend, 2020).
The 2021 Candil History Prize Finalist List
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Jury of the all-star lineup:
Look for great historical writing and understand the times we live in
Every year, the winner of the Candir History Prize becomes the publisher's favorite. This year, a jury of star-studded global scholars has brought this year's Candil History Prize to great attention. The members of the jury of the 2021 Candir History Prize are basically international scholars who are highly sought after by China's publishing and reading circles. The jury was chaired by the Canadian historian and politician Michael Ignatieff, and the rest of the jury consisted of Eric Foner and Henrietta Harrison, known to Chinese readers, and two others, Sunil Khilnani and Jennifer Lee. Jennifer L. Morgan.
As one of the most influential politicians and intellectuals in the world today, Ye has taught at Cambridge University, the University of Toronto, Harvard University and other universities, and has also worked as a war correspondent and political commentator for many years, serving as an adviser to many governments, providing deep insights into democracy, public safety and international affairs, and is the winner of the George Orwell Award and the Hannah Arendt Award. Ye Liting's books such as "Blood and Belonging", "Fire and Embers", "The Glory of the Warrior", "The Needs of Strangers", "The Biography of Berlin", and "The Legitimate Scale of Pain" have also been introduced into the simplified version of Chinese, which has been praised by Chinese intellectuals. In his appointment as chairman of the jury, Ye Liting announced that he would use this year's Kandir History Prize to find great historical writing to change our understanding of the contemporary world.
Eric Fanner is the Dewitt Clinton Chair Professor of History at Columbia University, one of the most influential historians in contemporary America, has served as president of the American Historians Association and president of the American Historical Society, and has served as a chair professor of American history at several world-renowned universities, and has been awarded the title of "Great Teacher" of Columbia University. He has made remarkable achievements in the fields of American Civil War and Reconstruction History, African American History, American Political Culture and Intellectual History, and has published nearly 30 works with solid historical materials and profound ideas, many of which have become classic works in the study of American history, and have won more than a dozen academic awards such as the Bancroft Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. His important books such as "The Story of American Liberty", "The Test of Fire: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery", "American History: Ideals and Reality", "Freedom Trail: A Secret History of the "Underground Railroad", "The Political Legacy of 19th-Century America", "The Second Founding of the Nation: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Reforgeted the U.S. Constitution", etc., have been translated into Chinese simplified version and are highly sought after by Chinese readers. Joining the jury, Eric Fontaine said it was more important than ever to look forward to reading works in areas he was unfamiliar with to refine himself and advance his field of expertise; to find highly original, historically insightful works and to re-understand our citizenship today with the help of an understanding of history.
The British historian Shen Aidi is a professor of modern Chinese history at Oxford University, and is also often active in Chinese academia, and has a senior exchange with Chinese academic circles, mainly focusing on the study of Chinese social and cultural history from the Qing Dynasty to today. Her historical books, Dream awakening: the life of a North China villager, and The Missionary Curse: A Global History of a North China Village, have been translated into Chinese published. When appointed as a member of the jury, Shen Aidi said: "The best history books come from the deep immersion of various original materials over the years, which makes the past history vivid and also gives us a new understanding of the past history... The past is much more complicated than we think, and good historical writings will not only tell us this truth, but also allow us to experience it. ”
2021 Candir History Prize Jury: Ye Liting, Eric Fanner, Shen Aidi, Sunil Kirnani and Jennifer M. L. Morgan
Sunil Kirnani is Professor of Politics and History at Ashoka University in India, and previously served as Director of the Institute of Indian Studies at King's College London, where his research interests include democratic theory and strategic ideas to define India's place in the world. "It's an exciting time when history writing is able to engage with a wide audience and bring unexpected perspectives to our current emergency, and I look forward to a rich conversation with some of the best new works in the field," he said. ”
Jennifer M L. Morgan is the Chair of the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, where his research interests are on gender and race issues in the Atlantic black world. As a judge for the Candir Prize in History, she said: "As we grapple with the consequences of a year of profound upheavals and riots, we feel particularly critical to think deeply and critically about what has brought us to such an era. I will look for works that convey the urgency of contact with the past and help us with beautiful writing. ”
Jason Opal, chair of the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University, said: "It is delighted that this year's jury will have so many stars involved. Each member has an outstanding achievement, and their expertise ranges from the Americas and Europe to India and Asia. They are able to promote each other and be able to read widely and deeply the excellent works that they will consider winning. Most importantly, they will be able to find the most pressing historical works, those that allow us to better understand the present and lead to the future. The Chairman of the Jury, Ye Liting, is a scholar and politician with a unique perspective on human history and the human condition, and is ideally suited to help us find the best historical writing and academic research. As the world faces many crises, it becomes crucial to understand history – history can help us understand how our time got to this point and how we might change course. That's the core purpose of the Candir History Prize, to find books that have helped us through difficult times."
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Finalist and Shortlisted Books:
Race, class, empire, revolution and memory
In the online live broadcast of the shortlist, Ye Liting said that the three finalists for the 2021 Candil History Prize are outstanding, with French historian Marie Fafro's "Khanate: How the Mongols Changed the World" delving into the mobile empire established by the Mongol conquerors and its social order flexibility, socio-cultural integration and the ability to cooperate in social practice; Canadian historian Rebecca Clifford's "Survivor: Children's Lives After the Holocaust" Changing our understanding of historical trauma and its impact on children has made an important contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and its inexhaustible impact on survivors; American historian Marjorie Carls' Bloody Rivers: A Chronicle of The Rebellion and Freedom of the Wild Coast uses first-hand archival archives to impressively energize the oppressors and oppressed in colonies built on slavery and barbaric violence. Mary Hunt, dean of McGill University's School of Arts, who manages the award, added: "The Candir History Prize finalists offer innovative historical writing and engaging written narratives. These three historical works, impeccable in academic research, clever arguments, and new insights will provoke profound dialogue and debate among historians and non-specialists. ”
French historian Marie Fafro's Khanate: How the Mongols Changed the World chronicles the 300-year reign of the Mongol khanate, showing how their empire left lasting traces in the history of Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Shen Aidi believes that this is definitely an amazing historical work, covering almost the entire range of Central Asian languages. With the help of extensive source material and source material from actual surveys, insights into how people spoke at the time and what they really cared about were. Sunil Kirnani argues that Favro's work completely changed our view of Central Asia and the historical perception of the profound influence of the Mongol Empire on Central Asia and the rest of the world.
In Survivors: Life for Children After the Holocaust, Rebecca Clifford studies Holocaust child survivors from 1945 to the present, using archives and oral interviews to understand how these children recover from trauma, rebuild their lives, and seek to recover from their terrible past. According to Sunier Kirnani, "This work deals with a huge subject, but still manages to uncover new historical insights, and Rebecca Clifford offers us a whole new perspective on the Holocaust with perfect evidence, documentation, and narrative." "Jennifer M. L. Morgan believes that Clifford brings readers into the lives and experiences of these children with his fluent writing and exquisite narrative, so that we can feel the subtle connection with them and still want to read it again and again after reading it.
American historian Marjolina Carls' Blood Flows: A Chronicle of Rebellion and Freedom on the Wild Coast recounts a slave rebellion in Burbis, a Dutch colony in Guyana, in 1763. Drawing on 18th-century Dutch sources, Kars recounts the rebellion and its bloody repression from the unique perspective of dutch colonists and slaves themselves. "Most importantly, it's an incredible in-depth study of a very rich archive that can then tell us a lot about these people and what their lives are like, and it's this ability to be truly close to people that gives it a sense of narrative drive and a unique sense of personal character," Shen said. Eric Fontaine argues that this work has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the racial history of the Western Hemisphere, helping us understand the deep roots of the resistance movements we see today.
Eight candidate books were announced on September 23
As early as September 23 this year, the jury of the Candir History Prize announced the shortlist for 2021. In addition to "Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust," "Khanate: How the Mongols Changed the World," and "Rivers of Blood: A Chronicle of Rebellion and Freedom on the Wild Coast," the remaining five shortlisted historical works are Manan Ahmed Asif, an associate professor of history at Columbia University, "The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India.". Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper, professor of Southeast Asian history and director of the Center for History and Economics at cambridge, and Vanguard: How by Martha Jones, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, And An Infinite History: the Story of a Family in France over Three by Emma Rothschild, director of the Center for The Study of History and Economics at Harvard University Centuries) and Tyler Stovar, dean of the Fordham University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, White Freedom: the Racial History of an Idea.
Ye Liting, chairman of the jury, believes that it is too difficult to choose eight works from 360 historical works; this year's eight shortlisted works use historical academic research to solve the problems of race, class, empire, revolution and memory that continue to define the present. The eight shortlisted works, from race relations to gender politics, from India to the Atlantic black world, illustrate race, class, empire, revolution, and memory, showing "the scope and insight of current historical writing." Judge Eric Fontaine argues that these eight books embody the best historical categories and scholarly insights today, covering themes that span many centuries and across the globe, rely on archival evidence for historical imagination, challenge universal notions, and offer new ways of looking at familiar subjects. Sunil Kirnani, professor of politics and history at Ashoka University in India, said: "These historical works span the realms of time, geography and analysis, with the help of complex academic methods and profound academic research, and are expressed in a clear and elegant form; in this uncertain era, these works aptly embody the value of historical perspectives to our time." ”
In the end, who will win the 2021 Candil History Awards? The final answer will be revealed on December 2, in a digital livestream, and will feature the Candil Forum and the Candil Lecture, which will invite three finalists to a dialogue on a current topic of global significance, and the Kandil Lecture, by Camilla, last year's Kandir History Prize winner and author of "Fifth Sun: A history of the Aztecs." Townsend) gave a speech.
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Synopsis of eight books
Manan Ahmed Asif, The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India, Harvard University Press
Did South Asia have a common regional identity before the arrival of Europeans at the end of the 15th century? This is not only a topic of long-standing debate in academia, but also a topic of fierce debate in contemporary political discourse. Manan Ahmed Assif argues that Pakistan, Bangladesh and India share a common political lineage: they are all part of the region and people call themselves Hindustans. Asif draws on the work of local historians on the history between 1000 AD and 1900 AD, and traces the historical concept of Hindustan and how this identity gradually withered away in subsequent histories.
The work offers a radical explanation of how India developed its contemporary political identity. Asif argues that the European understanding of India as Hinduism has replaced the earlier indigenous understanding of India as the homeland of Hindustan, home to all faiths. Turning over the medieval history of the subcontinent, Asif discovered a rich network of Hindustan historians who imagined, studied, and shaped their kings, cities, and societies. Asif carefully studied the most complete concept of Hindustan, which was elaborated by Firishta, a historian of the Deccan Peninsula in the early seventeenth century. His tome Tarikh-iFirishta became the main source of information for European philosophers and historians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, such as Voltaire, Kant, Hegel and Gibbon. However, Felishta's concept of Hindustan has disappeared and is replaced by a different Indian concept today.
Manan Ahmed Asif is an associate professor of history at Columbia University, representing A Book of Conquest (Harvard University Press).
Rebecca Clifford, Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust, Yale University Press
When we don't know where we're coming from, how can we make our lives meaningful? This is a pressing issue for the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, whose pre-war memories are vague or non-existent. In this wonderful book, Rebecca Clifford traces the lives of a hundred Jewish children: from the rubble to adulthood and even into old age.
With the help of archives and interviews, Clifford documented these child survivors and those who cared for them, as well as those who studied them, such as Anna Freud. Survivor explores the long-term effects of the Holocaust, challenging our assumptions about trauma, and the surprisingly astonishing narrative helps us understand what life looks like after childhood rupture and childhood loss, and what it is like to live with trauma.
Rebecca Clifford is a professor of transnational and European history at the University of Durham, where she is the representative book Commemorating the Holocaust: The Dilemmas of Remembrance in France and Italy.
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World," Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
The Mongols are widely known for their conquest of the world. But in this general history of the khanate, Mary Fafro argues that in the western part of the Mongol Empire after Genghis Khan's death, the Mongols' achievements extended far beyond the scope of war. For three hundred years, tribes played no less role in global development than in Rome. It left a deep legacy in Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Middle East, which is still clearly visible today.
Mary Favro takes us to one of the most powerful sources of cross-border fusion in world history. The Khanate was the central node of Eurasian commercial prosperity in the 13th and 14th centuries, and was a channel of communication across thousands of miles. The Khanate's unique political system (the complex power-sharing mechanism between khans and aristocrats), rewarding skilled administrators and diplomats, fostered a new economic order that was organized and fluid. Beginning with its capital, Sarai, located in the lower Volga, the khanate provided Russia with a model of rule that influenced the social development and state construction of entire Islamic culture, spreading complex theories of the natural world and triggering new ideas of religious tolerance.
The Khanate is an ambitious image of an eloquent authority for an empire that is little understood and often denied. Fafro challenges the notion that nomads are marginalized in history, making it clear that we live in a world inherited from the Mongol period.
Marie Favro is an associate professor of history at Paris Nanterre University. She is a Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Archaeology in France, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, and a research assistant at Oxford University on the research project "Nomadic Empires: A World Historical Perspective.". Her representative books include La Horde d'Or et le sultanat mamelouk (Golden Horde and the Mamluk Sultanate: The Birth of an Alliance) and the graphic novel Gengis Khan.
Tim Harper, Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire, Allen Lane, Penguin Press, Penguin Random House
The end of European empires is often seen as a story of high-level politics and war. Tim Harper's remarkable new book offers a very different narrative: it shows how empires were fundamentally weakened. With the help of new inexpensive printing technologies, global travel, and the widespread spread of French and English, young activists across Asia are communicating with each other in unprecedented ways. These secret networks extended to the capitals of the empires: London, Paris, the Americas, and increasingly to Moscow.
They built a global secret network that fought fiercely for decades against the Imperial Police Force. They gathered in major Asian cities such as Kolkata, Singapore, Batavia, Hanoi, Tokyo, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong, and plotted a continuous campaign to end the colonial regime through faith inducement and terrorism. Many will face being killed or imprisoned if captured, but others will continue to rule the newly independent state.
Underground Asia uses a wealth of exciting new sources to subvert our understanding of twentieth-century empires. Readers will be transported into a bizarre world of stowaways, spy agents, secret codes, cheap guns, assassinations, and intrigues, where young Asians are making their own plans for their future.
Tim Harper is Professor of Southeast Asian History and Director of the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Magdalen College. He co-authored with Christopher Bayly two landmark historical books on penguins in South and Southeast Asia during World War II, Forgotten Armies and Forgotten Wars.
Martha S. Jones, Vanguard: How BlackWomen Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, Basic Books, Hachette Book Group）
In popular story, the suffrage movement began in 1848 in the town of Falls in Seneca County and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. However, this overwhelming white women's movement did not win the majority of black women the right to vote. The protection of their own rights requires their own movement.
In Pioneer, the renowned historian Martha S. Jones brings us a new historical work on the political life of African-American women in the United States. Jones recounts how they fought for the right to vote in spite of racism and sexism, and how they exercised their political rights to ensure equality and dignity for all. From the early days of the Republic to the passage of the Suffrage Act in 1965, and the historical period that followed, Jones excavated the lives and work of black women such as Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, who were pioneers in women's rights. Committed to calling for and realizing the American Dream at its best.
Martha S. Jones is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and president of the Black Alumni Association. In addition, she is president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the largest and oldest association of women historians in the United States, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Organization of American Historians, representing the books "Birthright Citizens" and "Birthright Citizens" All Bound up Together, etc., write for the Washington Post, The Atlantic, USA Today and other media. Currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland.
Marjoleine Kars, Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast, The New Press
On Sunday, February 27, 1763, thousands of slaves in the Dutch colony of Burbis (present-day Guyana) staged a massive rebellion that surprisingly almost succeeded. Surrounded by jungles and savannahs, revolutionaries (many of whom were born in Africa) and Europeans resisted each other for a whole year. In the end, the Dutch were victorious because they had the unique advantage of being able to obtain soldiers and supplies from neighboring colonies and Europe. "Rivers of Blood" writes the history of this magnificent revolution that almost changed the face of the Americas and is little known.
Historian Marjolina Kars used 900 interrogation records collected by the Dutch after the collapse of the Berbis Rebellion in the Dutch archives to reconstruct the unusually rich day-by-day record of this key event. Rivers of Blood offers us a rare opportunity to gain insight into the political horizons of the enslaved in the early revolutionary era, and vividly paints a vivid picture of the history of exotic plantations, tropical rainforests, and a group of real people such as the Caribbean allies who control the vast hinterland of South America. This wonderful and original work of history will change our understanding of revolution, slavery, and freedom.
Marjolina Carls is an associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. A prominent historian of slavery, his representative works include "Rivers of Blood: The New Press" and "Breaking Loose Together". Currently resides in Washington, D.C.
Emma Rothschild, An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries, Princeton University Press
Marie Aymard, an illiterate widow, lives in Angoulême, the capital of the southwestern French province, a place where nothing seems to happen. In 1764, however, she left a brief mark on the historical record through two documents: one was a power of attorney for the property of her late husband, who was a carpenter in Grenada, and the other was a prenuptial deed for her daughter, signed by 83 men of Angoulême.
"Who is Mary Aymar?" Who are these signatories? Why did they gather on a dim afternoon in December 1764? Starting with these questions, Endless History offers a panoramic view of a large family of five generations. Through a series of interconnected stories, ending with the great-granddaughter of Marie Aymar in 1906, Emma Rothschild writes a novel historiography that blends social and family networks, immigration, real estate, the French Revolution, and the transformation of economic life in the nineteenth century. Endless History shows how the ordinary life of a family over three centuries has extraordinaryly documented profound social and economic changes.
Rothschilds looked at this humble, nameless family and weaved a vast narrative similar to the novel of the times. The characters traveled to Syria, Mexico, and Tahiti, but few personal letters remain; their fates are unequal, from the impoverished seamstress in Paris to the cardinal archbishop of Algiers, who is her third cousin. Rothschild not only took full advantage of new discoveries in local archives, but also pioneered new approaches to genealogical research by employing the latest techniques such as social network visualization and large-scale search.
Emma Rothschild is the Jeremy & Jane Knowles Chair Professor of History and Director of the Center for The Study of History and Economics at Harvard University, and has participated in collaborative research projects between Harvard and Cambridge on the dissemination of economic, legal, and political ideas and the visualization of historical networks. Her notable works also include The Inner Life of Empires (Princeton University Press, 2011) and Economic Sentiments (Harvard University Press, 2001).
Tyler Stovall, White Freedom: the Racial History of an Idea, Princeton University Press
The Age of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to modern ideas such as liberal democracy, was also the peak of the transatlantic slave trade. The United States, founded on the principle of freedom, is also a nation built on slavery in Africa, native American genocide, and systemic racial discrimination. White Freedom traces the complex relationship between freedom and race from the 18th century to the present day, revealing the historical context of why being white meant gaining freedom.
Taylor Stovar explores the history of the intertwining of racist and liberal ideas in France and the United States, both of which claim freedom is at the heart of their national identity. He explores how French and American thinkers defined freedom in racial terms and how freedom was seen as one of the characteristics and privileges of whites. He discussed how the Statue of Liberty (a Gift from France to the United States, perhaps the most famous symbol of freedom on earth) promised European immigrants freedom and whiteness. Storwal takes the reader from the revolutionary era to the present day, challenging the notion that racism is in some way a paradox or contradiction in the democratic tradition, showing how white identity became an intrinsic factor in the Western idea of freedom. In the history of modern Western liberal democracy, freedom has long been the freedom of whites.
As an important scholarly work, White Liberty is sure to appeal to a wide audience and transform contemporary debate by providing important new perspectives on the racism inherent in our most cherished beliefs about freedom, liberty, and human rights.
Taylor Stovar is professor of history and dean of the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University. His books include Transnational France: The Modern History of a Universal Nation, Paris Noir: African Americansin the City of Light, and The Rise of the Rise of the ParisRed Belt）。
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Resources:
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https://lithub.com/here-are-the-finalists-for-the-2021-cundill-history-prize/；https://www.cundillprize.com/；https://www.thebookseller.com/news/clifford-favereau-and-kars-named-named-75k-cundill-history-prize-finalists-1285645；https://www.thebookseller.com/news/cundill-history-prize-shortlist-shines-light-race-class-empire-revolution-and-memory-1281019；
https://youtu.be/7dzDoq49WHY；https://lithub.com/tag/2021-cundill-history-prize/
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