Maxine Berg Explained

Maxine Louise Berg, (born 22 February 1950) is a British historian and academic. Since 1998, she has been a professor of history at the University of Warwick. She has taught at Warwick since 1978, joining the Department of Economics, before transferring to History. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Background

Berg obtained a doctorate from the University of Oxford. Her thesis was entitled The machinery question: Conceptions of technical change in political economy during the industrial revolution, c. 1820 to 1840.

Selected publications

Books

• Book: Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution . (Coauthor with Pat Hudson) . London . . 2023 .
• Book: Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain . Oxford . . 2005 .
• Book: Technological Revolutions in Europe: Historical Perspectives . Cheltenham . . 1998 .
• Book: A Woman in History: Eileen Power, 1889–1940 . Cambridge . . 1996 .
• Book: The Age of Manufactures, 1700–1820: Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain . 2nd . Abingdon . . 1994 .
• Book: The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy, 1815–1848 . Cambridge . Cambridge University Press .

Papers

• Skill, craft and histories of industrialization of Europe and Asia . pdf . . 24 . 2014 . 127–48 . 10.1017/S0080440114000061 . Royal Historical Society, Cambridge University Press . 154017526 . 28 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170923030213/http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/70954/1/WRAP_RHSBERG%20FINAL2.pdf . 23 September 2017 . live . Berg . Maxine .

Notes and References

1. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/people/staff_index/mberg/ Warwick University: Dept. of History - Maxine Berg
2. http://us.macmillan.com/author/maxineberg Macmillan.Com: Maxine Berg
3. http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2005/craft/bio-berg.cfm British Academy: Maxine Berg
4. 'BERG, Prof. Maxine Louise', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 24 Sept 2017