Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society

Hagley Prize

Hagley Prize Medal The Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference jointly offer an annual prize for the best book in business history, broadly defined.

The prize committee encourages the submission of books from all methodological perspectives. It is particularly interested in innovative studies that have the potential to expand the boundaries of the discipline. Scholars, publishers, and other interested parties may submit nominations. Eligible books can have either an American or an international focus. They must be written in English and be published during the two years prior to the award.

Four copies of a book must accompany a nomination and be submitted to the prize coordinator: Carol Ressler Lockman, Hagley Museum and Library, P.O. Box 3630, 298 Buck Road East, Wilmington, DE 19807-0630. The deadline for nominations is December 31.

Hagley Prize Recipients

2011 : Susan Ingalls Lewis

Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885, Ohio State University; ISBN: 9780814203989

2010 : David Suisman

Cover of Selling Sounds
Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music, Harvard University Press; ISBN: 067403337X

2009 : Ann Smart Martin

Cover of Buying into the World of Goods
Buying into the World of Goods, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008; ISBN: 9780801887277

2008 : Thomas K. McCraw

Cover of Prophet of Invention by Thomas K McCraw
Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction, Belknap Press, 2007; ISBN: 0674025237

2007 : Christopher McKenna

Cover of the World's Newest Profession by Christopher McKenna
The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Press, 2006; ISBN: 0-521-81039-6

2006 : Pamela Walker Laird

Cover of Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin by Pamela Walker Laird Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin, Harvard University Press, 2006; ISBN: 978-0-674-01907-2

2005 : Co-Winners: Mira Wilkins and Thomas A. Kinney

Cover of The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945 by Mira Wilkins The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945, Harvard University Press, 2004; ISBN: 0-674-01308-5

Cover of The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America by Thomas A. Kinney The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004; ISBN 0-8018-7946-9

2004 : Jennifer Klein

Cover of For all These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State by Jennifer Klein For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State, Princeton University Press, 2003; ISBN: 0-691-07056-3

2003 : Clare Haru Crowston

Cover of Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791 by Clara Haru Crowston Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791, Duke University Press, 2001; ISBN: 0-8223-2662-0

2002 Co-Winners : S. Jonathan Wiesen and Gerald D. Feldman

Cover of West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955 by S. Jonathan S. Wiesen West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955,
University of North Carolina Press, 2001; ISBN: 0-8078-2634-0

Cover of Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933-1945 by Gerald D. Feldman Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933-1945
Cambridge University Press, 2001; ISBN 0-521-80929-0

2001 : Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Cover of Imagining Consumers by Regina Lee Blaszczyk Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000; ISBN: 0-8018-6193-4

2000 : Kathryn Burns

Cover of Colonial Habits by Kathryn Burns Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru
Duke University Press, 1999; ISBN: 0-8223-2291-9

1999 : Roland Marchand

Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business, University of California Press, 1998; ISBN: 0-520-08719-4

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