2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
Adam Hochschild
Offers an account of the first great human rights crusade, which originated in England in the 1780s and resulted in the freeing of hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world….
2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Shortlist
Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945
Christopher Bayly, Tim Harper
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Sean Wilentz
