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. 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

  • Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. (Coauthor with Pat Hudson). London: Polity. 2023.{{cite book}}: 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

References

  1. ↑ Warwick University: Dept. of History - Maxine Berg
  2. ↑ Macmillan.Com: Maxine Berg
  3. ↑ British Academy: Maxine Berg Archived 15 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  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


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