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

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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.'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 201
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(FBA), a

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(FRHistS), and an Honorary Fellow of

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at the University of Oxford.

Background

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

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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