Berg Publishers was an

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company based in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England and Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It was founded in the United Kingdom in 1983 by Marion Berghahn. Berg published

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s, and

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s. It focused on fashion, design,

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, society, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behav ...

, history, and

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. Operations in Providence began shortly after Berghahn's husband, historian Volker Berghahn, accepted a chair at

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

in 1988.

History

In 2003, Berg Publishers was bought from its owners by its managers Kathryn Earle and Sara Everett. 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. 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 and its e4books project accredited Berg in 2008. Berg won the

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's 2008 Publishing Technology E-Publishing Award for its collection of profitable digital strategies in March 2008. By March 2008, Berg had published thirteen journals. In September 2008,

Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction. Bloomsbury's head office is located on Bedford Square in Bloomsbury, an area of the London Borough of Camden. It has a US publishing office located in ...

bought Berg Publishers for (

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3,569,535).Press release Since 2013, all Berg titles have been published under the Bloomsbury name (under the imprint Bloomsbury Academic).

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* {{Official website, http://www.bergpublishers.com/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx Academic publishing companies Book publishing companies of England Publishing companies established in 1983 1983 establishments in England 2013 disestablishments in England Defunct publishing companies Publishing companies disestablished in 2013