Overview
- The winning book reassesses the 16th-century German Peasants’ War and was published by John Murray Press/Basic Books.
- Jury chair Ada Ferrer praised Roper’s analysis as “stunning and multifaceted,” highlighting a synthesis of cultural, intellectual, social, economic and religious history.
- Finalists Marlene L. Daut and Sophia Rosenfeld will each receive US$10,000 for works on Haiti’s Henry Christophe and the history of modern freedom.
- The prize is administered by McGill University, awarded annually since 2008, and named for the late philanthropist F. Peter Cundill.
- Roper is a University of Oxford historian from Melbourne and a 2016 Gerda Henkel Prize recipient.