Thirteen books have been longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize.

The $75,000 (U.S.) prize, administered by McGill University, is awarded annually to a book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality, and broad appeal.

A jury comprised of chair Rana Mitter, Nicole Eustace, Stephanie Nolen, Moses Ochonu, and Rebecca L. Spang made the selections of the longlisted titles.

The books longlisted for this year’s prize are:

• Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass (Picador/Pan Macmillan)
• They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence by Lauren Benton (Princeton University Press)
• Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji (The Bodley Head/ Vintage/Yale University Press)
• Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal (Penguin Random House)
• Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh (John Murray/Hachette)
• Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism by Catherine Hall (Cambridge University Press)
• France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain by Julian Jackson (Belknap Press)
• Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World by Patrick Joyce (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
• Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan by Ruby Lal (Yale University Press)
• Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America by Andrew C. McKevitt (University of North Carolina Press)
• Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights by Dylan C. Penningroth (Liveright Publishing)
• The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck, translated byDavid Colmer and David McKay (The Bodley Head/Vintage/W. W. Norton)

The shortlist for this year’s prize will be announced on Sept. 5, with finalists to be announced on Oct. 3 and the winner to be named on Oct. 30.

Tania Branigan, an editorial writer at the Guardian, won last year’s prize for her book Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution.

Update, August 1: This story has been updated to include the translators of Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World.