The Hagley Prize is awarded jointly by the Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History
Conference to the best book in business history (broadly defined)
Ai Hisano, Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat (Harvard
University Press, 2019)
Amanda Ciafone, Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation
(University of California Press, 2019)
Shennette Garrett-Scott, Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the
New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019)
Ai Hisano, Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat (Harvard
University Press, 2019)
Sarah Milov, The Cigarette: A Political History (Harvard University Press, 2019)
David K. Johnson, Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement
(Columbia University Press, 2019)
Andrew Konove, Black Market Capital: Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico
City (University of California Press, 2018)
Jorun Poettering, Migrating Merchants: Trade, Nation, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century
Hamburg and Portugal (De Gruyter, 2019)
Mark Rose, Market Rules: Bankers, Presidents, and the Origins of the Great Recession
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Heidi Tworek, News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications,
1900-1945 (Harvard University Press, 2019)
JoAnn Yates and Craig Murphy, Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)
Conference to the best book in business history (broadly defined)
2020 Winner
Ai Hisano, Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat (Harvard
University Press, 2019)
2020 Finalists (in alphabetical order)
(University of California Press, 2019)
Shennette Garrett-Scott, Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the
New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019)
Ai Hisano, Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat (Harvard
University Press, 2019)
Sarah Milov, The Cigarette: A Political History (Harvard University Press, 2019)
David K. Johnson, Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement
(Columbia University Press, 2019)
Andrew Konove, Black Market Capital: Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico
City (University of California Press, 2018)
Jorun Poettering, Migrating Merchants: Trade, Nation, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century
Hamburg and Portugal (De Gruyter, 2019)
Mark Rose, Market Rules: Bankers, Presidents, and the Origins of the Great Recession
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Heidi Tworek, News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications,
1900-1945 (Harvard University Press, 2019)
JoAnn Yates and Craig Murphy, Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)
