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Berg Publishers

British publishing company (1983–2013)

Berg Publishers was an academic publishing 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 monographs, textbooks, reference works, and academic journals.2 It is part of Bloomsbury Publishing.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Berg Publishers was an academic publishing 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 monographs, textbooks, reference works, and academic journals. It focused on fashion, design, anthropology, history, and cultural studies. Operations in Providence began shortly after Berghahn's husband, historian Volker Berghahn, accepted a chair at Brown University in 1988.2

Corporate structure

Berg Publishers is part of a group headed by Bloomsbury Publishing. 31 entities, 4 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Bloomsbury Publishing London, United Kingdom
    • Berg Publishers Oxford
    • A & C Black Subsidiary · London
    • ABC-CLIO Subsidiary · Santa Barbara
    • Bloomsbury India Subsidiary · New Delhi, India
    • Head of Zeus Subsidiary
    • Oberon Books Subsidiary · Islington
    • Osprey Publishing Subsidiary · London
    • Scarecrow Press Subsidiary
    • Backbeat Books Subsidiary · United States
    • Berg Fashion Library Limited Subsidiary · United Kingdom
    • Bloomsbury Academic Subsidiary · United Kingdom
    • Bloomsbury Book Publishing Company Limited Subsidiary
    • Bloomsbury Information Limited Subsidiary
    • Bloomsbury Media Limited Subsidiary
    • Bloomsbury Professional Limited Subsidiary
    • BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING INC. Subsidiary · New York, New York, United States
    • Bloomsbury Publishing Ireland Limited Subsidiary · Ireland
    • Christopher Helm Publishers Subsidiary
    • Featherstone Education Limited Subsidiary · United Kingdom
    • Hart Publishing Limited Subsidiary
    • I.B. Tauris & Co. Limited Subsidiary
    • John Wisden (Holdings) Limited Subsidiary · United Kingdom
    • Oxford International Publishers Limited Subsidiary · United Kingdom
    • Reed's Almanac Limited Subsidiary · United Kingdom
    • Rowman & Littlefield Subsidiary · United States
    • and 30 more

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

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 Independent Publishers Guild'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 bought Berg Publishers for £3,000,000 (US$3,569,535). Since 2013, all Berg titles have been published under the Bloomsbury name (under the imprint Bloomsbury Academic).

From Wikipedia’s article on Berg Publishers, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Subsidiaries and ownership

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Timeline

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