{"id":126754,"date":"2017-10-26T05:45:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T09:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=126754"},"modified":"2017-10-26T05:45:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T09:45:39","slug":"montreal-historian-among-finalists-for-us75000-cundill-history-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/26\/montreal-historian-among-finalists-for-us75000-cundill-history-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal historian among finalists for US$75,000 Cundill History Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Goscha’s book \u201cVietnam: A New History\u201d is the sole Canadian contender for this year’s Cundill History Prize. (Screenshot from https:\/\/books.google.com.ph\/books\/about\/Vietnam.html?id=Bl04DgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Montreal historian Christopher Goscha’s account of Vietnam’s divided past has made the short list for a prestigious history writing prize.<\/p>\n

Goscha’s book \u201cVietnam: A New History\u201d is the sole Canadian contender for this year’s Cundill History Prize, which is run by McGill University and rewards non-fiction history writing in English.<\/p>\n

Goscha teaches at Universite de Quebec a Montreal.<\/p>\n

His book is up against two other finalists for the US$75,000 prize, including \u201cThe Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century\u201d by Walter Schneidel, who was born in Austria and is based in the U.S.<\/p>\n

The other contender is \u201cThe House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsar\u201d by University of London Prof. Daniel Beer.<\/p>\n

The runners-up receive US$10,000 each.<\/p>\n

This year’s jury includes Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan, British-American historian and author Amanda Foreman, and Canadian journalist and author Jeffrey Simpson.<\/p>\n

The winner will be announced Nov. 16 in Montreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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