Ralph Gomory Prize Winners
This prize, made possible by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, recognizes historical work on the effects of business enterprises on the economic conditions of the countries in which they operate. The award consists of a $5,000 cash prize, presented at the BHC annual meeting. The prize was first awarded in 2011.
20112011 Honorable Mention:Richard R. John, Columbia University
Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications (Harvard University Press, 2010).2012James R. Fichter, Lingnan University
So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism (Harvard University Press, 2010).
2012 Honorable Mention:Richard White, Stanford University
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (W. W. Norton, 2011).2012 Article Winner:Jason M. Colby, University of Victoria
The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America (Cornell University Press, 2011)
Philip J. Stern, Duke University
The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India (Oxford University Press, 2011)Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Paul Erickson,
"Latex and Blood: Science, Markets, and American Empire," Radical History Review 107 (Spring, 2010): 45-73.
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