Maxine Louise Berg, (born 22 February 1950) is a British historian and academic. Since 1998, she has been

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of History at the

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. She has taught at Warwick since 1978, joining the Department of Economics, before transferring to History. She is a Fellow of the

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and of the

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.British Academy: Maxine Berg
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'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 201
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/ref> Dr Berg obtained a doctorate from the

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. Her thesis was entitled
The machinery question: Conceptions of technical change in political economy during the industrial revolution, c. 1820 to 1840
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Selected publications

Books * Berg, Maxine (2005) Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain, OUP * Berg, Maxine (1998) Technological Revolutions in Europe: Historical Perspectives, Edward Elgar. * Berg, Maxine (1996) A Woman in History; Eileen Power 1889–1940, Cambridge * Berg, Maxine (1994) The Age of Manufactures. Second Edition Routledge * Berg, Maxine (1980) The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815–1848, Cambridge University Press. Papers *

References

1950 births Living people Academics of the University of Warwick British women historians Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Fellows of the British Academy {{UK-historian-stub