Prize Details

2025 Hagley Prize in Business History Finalists

*Görkem Akgöz, In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialization, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey (Brill, 2024)

Jennifer Black, Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Andrew Denning, Automotive Empire: How Roads and Cars Fueled European Colonialism in Africa (Cornell University Press, 2024).

Justine Edwards, Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank (Norton, 2024).

Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson, Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade (Harvard University Press, 2024)

Trish Kahle, Energy Citizenship: Coal and Democracy in the American Century (Columbia, 2024).

*Simone Müller, The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade (University of Washington Press, 2023).

Michael O’Sullivan, No Birds of Passage: A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities (Harvard University Press, 2023).

Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery (University of Chicago Press, 2024). 

Sean Vanetta, Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial