Prize Details

2026 Hagley Prize in Business History Finalists

James Michael Buckley, City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry (University of Texas Press)

Titas Chakraborty, Empire of Labor: How the East India Company Colonized Hired Work (University of California Press)

Robert Colby, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South (Oxford University Press)

Emilie Connolly, Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States (Princeton University Press)

Kim M. Gruenwald, Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters: Commerce and Empire in the Riverine West, 1750–1803 (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Koji Hirata, Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism (Cambridge University Press)

Ana Otero-Cleves, Plebian Consumers: Global Connections, Local Trade, and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (Cambridge University Press)

Katherine J. Parkin, The Abortion Market: Buying and Selling Access in the Era Before Roe (University of Pennsylvania Press)

Honghong Tinn, Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan’s Computing Industry (MIT Press)

Gennifer Weisenfeld, The Fine Art of Persuasion: Corporate Advertising Design, Nation, and Empire in Modern Japan (Duke University Press)