1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

The Quest For El Cid

Richard Fletcher

Rodrigo Díaz, the legendary warrior-knight of eleventh-century Castile known as El Cid, is still honored in Spain as a national hero for liberating the fatherland from the occupying Moors. Yet, as this book reveals, there are many contradictions between el…

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

David Fromkin

Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People

Jon Butler

Italy and its Monarchy

Denis Mack Smith

The Search for Modern China

Jonathan D. Spence