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Maxine Louise Berg, FRHistS , FBA (born 22 February 1950) is a British historian and academic. Since 1998, she has been a professor of history at the University of Warwick. She has taught at Warwick since 1978, joining the Department of Economics, before transferring to History. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Berg obtained a doctorate from the University of Oxford. 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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References

  1. Warwick University: Dept. of History - Maxine Berg
  2. Macmillan.Com: Maxine Berg
  3. British Academy: Maxine Berg Archived 15 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  4. '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 2016 accessed 24 Sept 2017