Maxine Berg
2 books
About the Author
Maxine Berg is a distinguished historian and professor emerita at the University of Warwick, renowned for her pioneering research on the intersections of economic history, gender, and material culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Her work illuminates how global trade, luxury consumption, and technological innovation shaped modern capitalism, challenging traditional narratives of the Industrial Revolution. Drawing on extensive archival sources and interdisciplinary approaches, Berg explores the roles of women, slaves, and colonial economies in driving industrial progress. With a career spanning decades, she has influenced generations of scholars through her incisive analyses and commitment to social history, making complex economic transformations accessible and relevant to contemporary debates on inequality and globalization.
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Scholarly
Interdisciplinary
Insightful
