The World’s Best History Authors Together On Stage
Cundill Prize Finalists to Speak At IFOA Saturday
Afternoon!
October 25, 2015 The three finalists for the world’s richest
non-fiction book prize – the Cundill – will be on stage together this Saturday
afternoon as part of the International Festival of Authors in Toronto. They will join moderator McGill
professor of History, Gil Troy, at 3pm on October 31st at
Harbourfront’s Studio Theatre.
The
three finalists appearing are:
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Sven Beckert – Empire of Cotton: A Global
History
(Alfred A. Knopf)
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Susan Pedersen – The Guardians: The League of
Nations and the Crisis of Empire (Oxford University Press)
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Bettina Stangneth – Eichmann before Jerusalem: The
Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer (Bodley
Head)
Harvard Professor Sven
Beckert researches and teaches the history of the United
States in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the history of
capitalism, including its economic, social, political and transnational
dimensions. The Cundill Prize nominated Empire of Cotton: A Global History, is the first global
history of the nineteenth century’s most important commodity. The book won the
Bancroft Award, The Philip Taft Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer
Prize.
Columbia Professor Susan
Pedersen specializes in British history, the British Empire, comparative
European history, and international history. Her nominated book is The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of
Empire and details the League of Nations and its impact on the
imperial order. Dr. Pedersen is the lone Canadian in the running for the
Cundill Prize. She was born in Japan
(her parents were Canadian missionaries) and has retained her Canadian
citizenship.
German philosopher Bettina Strangneth has written a book that debunks the myth
that Adolf Eichmann was a banal stooge for Hitler. Her book Eichmann
before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer has been translated into English and has been
hailed as the most important historical book about Eichmann in this century.
Moderator
Gil Troy is
the author of The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s, published
by Thomas Dunne Books. He is a Professor of History at McGill University and a
Visiting Scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington. He
writes a regular column in The Daily Beast and The
Jerusalem Post.
The Cundill Prize in
Historical Literature at McGill (Cundill Prize)
was established in 2008 to recognize and promote literary and academic
achievement in history. The award is offered each year by McGill University to
an individual, of any nationality and from any country, who has published a
book determined to have had (or likely to have) a profound literary, social and
academic impact in the area of history.
Saturday, October 31, 2015 - 3:00 PM
Author appearance, Round table, Special Event: IFOA
Studio Theatre
235 Queens Quay West
Toronto M5J 2G8
Cost: $18/$15 for supporters/FREE for students & youth
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Tickets
can be purchased online: https://my.harbourfrontcentre.com/single/SelectSeating.aspx?p=26117, over the phone (416 973 4000)
or in person at 235 Queens Quay West.
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Bettina Stangneth (top),
Sven Beckert (left) and Susan Pedersen (right)
Media
Contacts:
TORONTO:
Stephen Weir & Associates
416-801-3101 416-489-5868
For more information on the Cundill Prize: www.cundillprize.com
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Bettina Stangneth (top),
Sven Beckert (left) and Susan Pedersen (right)
