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The finalists for this year’s Cundill Prize in History were announced on Monday.

Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes; Stephen Platt’s Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War; and Andrew Preston’s Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy, will compete for world’s richest award for historical writing.

The winner, to be announced November 29 in Montreal, receives $75,000 U.S. while the runners-up each take home $10,000.

This year’s jury considered 143 books submitted by publishers from around the world. To be eligible for the prize, which was founded in 2008 by the late F. Peter Cundill, a book must be written or translated into English.

Sergio Luzzatto won last year’s prize for Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age.

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