| Status: | Defunct (2013) |
| Founder: | Marion Berghahn |
| Successor: | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters: | Oxford |
| Distribution: | Macmillan Publishers (Except United States), Palgrave Macmillan (United States) |
| Publications: | Books, academic journals |
| Genre: | Academic books, journals |
Berg Publishers was an academic publishing company based in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England and Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It was founded in the United Kingdom in 1983 by Marion Berghahn.[1] [2] Berg published monographs, textbooks, reference works, and academic journals. It focused on fashion, design, anthropology, history, and cultural studies.[3] Operations in providence began shortly after Berghahn's husband, historian Volker Berghahn, accepted a chair at Brown University in 1988.
In 2003, Berg Publishers was bought from its owners by its managers Kathryn Earle and Sara Everett.[4] The original owner, Marion Berghahn, was forced out in 1994 and immediately founded Berghahn Books, a leading academic publisher in the fields of anthropology and social sciences.[5]
The Book Industry Communication (BIC), a trade standards group for electronic commerce and supply chain efficiency, awarded Berg its BIC Product Data Excellence Gold Award in 2007–2008[6] and its e4books project accredited Berg in 2008.[7] Berg won the Independent Publishers Guild's 2008 Publishing Technology E-Publishing Award for its collection of profitable digital strategies in March 2008.[8]
By March 2008, Berg had published thirteen journals.[9] In September 2008, Bloomsbury Publishing bought Berg Publishers for (US$3,569,535).[10] Since 2013, all Berg titles have been published under the Bloomsbury name (under the imprint Bloomsbury Academic).