Maxine Berg
Appearance
Maxine Louise Berg, FRHistS, FBA (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.[1][2]
She is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA),[3] a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS),[4] and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College at the University of Oxford.[5]
Background
[edit]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
[edit]Books
- Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. (Coauthor with Pat Hudson). London: Polity. 2023.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005.
- Technological Revolutions in Europe: Historical Perspectives. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 1998.
- A Woman in History: Eileen Power, 1889–1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1996.
- The Age of Manufactures, 1700–1820: Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain (2nd ed.). Abingdon: Routledge. 1994.
- The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy, 1815–1848. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Papers
- Berg, Maxine (2014). "Skill, craft and histories of industrialization of Europe and Asia" (pdf). Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 24. Royal Historical Society, Cambridge University Press: 127–48. doi:10.1017/S0080440114000061. S2CID 154017526. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 September 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
References
[edit]- ^ Warwick University: Dept. of History - Maxine Berg
- ^ '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
- ^ British Academy: Maxine Berg Archived 15 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Macmillan.Com: Maxine Berg
- ^ "Honorary Fellows | Balliol College". www.balliol.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2024.