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Berg Publishers
Status Defunct (2013)
Founded 1983  ( 1983 )
Founder Marion Berghahn
Successor Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of origin United Kingdom
Headquarters location Oxford
Distribution Macmillan Publishers (Except United States), Palgrave Macmillan (United States)
Publication types Books , academic journals
Fiction genres Academic books, journals
Official website www .bergpublishers .com /Home /tabid /36 /Default .aspx

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. [2]

History [ edit ]

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 ￡ 3,000,000 ( US$ 3,569,535). [10] Since 2013, all Berg titles have been published under the Bloomsbury name (under the imprint Bloomsbury Academic).

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "Berg Publishers: Local publisher set for great things" . Archived from the original on 6 April 2006.
  2. ^ a b "History of Berghahn Books" . www.berghahnbooks.com . Retrieved 25 September 2022 .
  3. ^ "About Berg" . Archived from the original on 21 May 2008 . Retrieved 30 May 2008 .
  4. ^ "Publishers bought for ￡2m" . Oxford Mail . Retrieved 25 September 2022 .
  5. ^ "List of Outstanding Titles - 2010" . Choice Reviews Online. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013 . Retrieved 11 August 2017 .
  6. ^ Earle, Kathryn (13 December 2006). "Social History Society places 'Cultural and Social History' with Berg" (open email). LIBLICENSE . Retrieved 25 September 2013 .
  7. ^ "Berg Publishers" . Archived from the original on 17 May 2008 . Retrieved 31 May 2008 .
  8. ^ Shine, Bridget (March 2008). "The Independent Publishing Awards 2008" . Independent Publishers Guild . Archived from the original on 30 April 2008 . Retrieved 25 September 2013 .
  9. ^ "Society for Scholarly Publishing ? Member News Releases" . Archived from the original on 4 July 2008 . Retrieved 30 May 2008 .
  10. ^ Press release "Rebranding of Continuum, Berg and Bristol Classical Press" . November 2012. Archived from the original on 29 April 2013 . Retrieved 23 November 2012 .

External links [ edit ]

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