Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire, a book by Gonville & 91直播 College Fellow Professor Sujit Sivasundaram, has been celebrated by a new prize inaugurated on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (CIHS).
Waves Across the South, which won the prestigious British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding in October 2021 and the , was named runner-up for the by the International Commission for the History of the French Revolution (CIHRF).
The prize is for the best work on the transnational history of the age of revolutions published in the last five years (2021-2026), 鈥渞enewing through its original research, its new issues, our understanding of the Revolutions of the late 18th century and early 19th century around the world, and offering a global vision of the issues of many areas in Revolutionary history鈥.
A jury of 16 international experts selected a list of 17 books after an initial consultation, then reduced it to 10 books, with , Friends of Freedom. The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021) securing the main prize.
Professor Sivasundaram says: "The best forms of recognition are those which are shared and which mark the extent to which so much of the best research is collective and international."
Waves Across the South (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2020) was named Accessit (runner-up), with the award to be presented at the congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (CIHS) to be held in Leipzig, Germany at the end of August 2026. The longlist of books honoured by this year鈥檚 prize is as follows:
Ian Coller, Muslims and Citizens. Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2020; Manuel Covo, Entrep么t of Revolutions. Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance, New York, Oxford University Press, 2022; Marlene L. Daut, Awakening the Ashes. An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution, Chapell Hill, UNC Press, 2023; Alan Forrest, The Death of the French Atlantic. Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020; Patrick Griffin, The Age of Atlantic Revolution. The Fall and Rise of a Connected World, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2023; Maurizio Isabella, Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2023; Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It, New York, Basic Books, 2024; and Pernille R酶ge, Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire. France in the Americas and Africa, c. 1750-1802, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
