Lisa Jardine wins 2009 Cundill International Prize in History

Author takes home worlds largest non-fiction historical literature By Allison Flynn Going Dutch: How England Plundered Hollands Glory (Harper), the remarkable story of the relationship between the Dutch Republic and Britain, two of 17th Century Europes most important colonial powers, has earned British historian Lisa Jardine the 2009 Cundill International Prize in History at McGill University.