Please join me in congratulating the winners and finalists of the Hagley Prize;
Hagley Prize
The prize is awarded jointly by the Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference to the best book in business history (broadly defined).
2021 Recipients
· Marcia Chatelain, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (WW Norton: 2019).
· Ben Marsh, Unravelled Dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World, 1500–1840 (Cambridge: 2020).
2021 Finalists (in alphabetical order)
· Marcia Chatelain, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (WW Norton: 2019).
· Jennifer Delton, The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism (Princeton: 2020).
· Jan de Vries, The Price of Bread: Regulating the Market in the Dutch Republic (Cambridge: 2019).
· Zachary Dorner, Merchants of Medicine: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century (Chicago: 2020).
· Paige Glotzer, How the Suburbs were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960 (Columbia: 2020).
· Joshua R. Greenberg, Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic (University of Pennsylvania: 2020).
· Suzanne L. Marchand, Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe (Princeton: 2020).
· Ben Marsh, Unravelled Dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World, 1500–1840 (Cambridge: 2020).
· Brandon K. Winford John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights (Kentucky: 2019).
· Wendy A. Woloson, Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America (Chicago: 2020).
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