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,

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, history, and

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. Operations in Providence began shortly after Berghahn's husband, historian

Volker Berghahn Volker Rolf Berghahn (born 15 February 1938) is a historian of German and modern European history at Columbia University. His research interests have included the fin de siècle period in Europe, the origins of World War I, and German-American r ...

, accepted a chair at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

in 1988.

History

In 2003, Berg Publishers was bought from its previous owners by its managers Kathryn Earle and Sara Everett. The

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(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. It is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index. Bloomsbury's head office is located in Bloomsbury, an area of the London Borough of Camden. It has a U ...

agreed to buy Oxford International Publishers, trading as Berg Publishers.Press release Since 2013, all Berg titles have been published under the Bloomsbury name (under the

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Bloomsbury Academic).

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External links

* {{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