| 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 |
Berg Publishers was anacademic publishing company based inOxford, Oxfordshire, England andProvidence, Rhode Island, United States. It was founded in the United Kingdom in 1983 byMarion Berghahn.[1][2] Berg publishedmonographs,textbooks,reference works, andacademic journals. It focused on fashion, design,anthropology, history, andcultural studies.[3] Operations in Providence began shortly after Berghahn's husband, historianVolker Berghahn, accepted a chair atBrown University in 1988.[2]
In 2003, Berg Publishers was bought from its owners by its managersKathryn Earle andSara 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]
TheBook 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 theIndependent 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 theimprint Bloomsbury Academic).