Professor Geoffrey G. Jones has won the premier business history prizes in both the United States and Great Britain for his book Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Oxford University Press, 2000). The book was awarded the 2001 Wadsworth Business History Prize as the work, by a British scholar, that has made the most "significant contribution to the study of business history." The volume also won the 1998-2000 Harvard-Newcomen Book Award in Business History. Conferred once every three years by the editorial board of the Business History Review, the award recognizes the best work in the field of business history published in the United States.

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