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Hagley Business History Prize Recipients

This prize is awarded for the best book in business history (broadly defined) and consists of a medallion and $2,500, which are presented at the annual meeting of the BHC. The winners to date are:






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


2000 Kathryn Burns
Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru
Duke University Press, 1999; ISBN: 0-8223-2291-9

2001 Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000; ISBN: 0-8018-6193-4



2002 Co-Winners: S. Jonathan Wiesen and Gerald D. Feldman
West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955
University of North Carolina Press, 2001; ISBN: 0-8078-2634-0

Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933-1945
Cambridge University Press, 2001; ISBN 0-521-80929-0



2003 Clare Haru Crowston

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




2004 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


2005 Co-Winners: Mira Wilkins and Thomas A. Kinney
The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945
Harvard University Press, 2004; ISBN: 0-674-01308-5

The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004; ISBN 0-8018-7946-9





2006 Pamela Walker Laird

Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin
Harvard University Press, 2006; ISBN: 978-0-674-01907-2



2007 Christopher McKenna

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








2008 Thomas K. McCraw

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
Harvard University Press, 2007; ISBN: 978-0-674-02523-3


2009 Ann Smart Martin

Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008; ISBN-13: 978-0801887277








2010 David Suisman

Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music
Harvard University Press, 2009; ISBN: 978-0-674-03337-5


2011 Susan Ingalls Lewis

Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885
Ohio State University Press, 2009; ISBN-13: 978-0-8142-0398-9





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