Maxine Berg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3768951 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Maxine Berg |
| PRENOMES | Maxine |
| SOBRENOME | Berg |
| ASSINATURA | BERG M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2979-3860 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 65 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 228 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1931 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Consumer Revolution, 1650–1800
Globalizing Europe
Globalizing Europe explores modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the continent not only as an engine but also as a product of global transformations. It looks at the ways in which the global movements of peoples and ideas, goods and raw materials, flora and fauna have impacted life on the continent over the centuries. Bringing together a group of leading historians, the book shows how the history of Europe can be…
Slavery, Capitalism and the British Economy
Small Spaces and Multiple Contexts
This article conveys the power of place in global history through the multiple perceptions of space and possession in one small remote locality – Nootka Sound on the Northwest coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. This space was, for a brief period between the 1770s and 1790s, connected with many parts of the world. Microhistorical methodologies applied to the texts of traders and explorers and turned to the study of a locality such as Noo…
Introduction
This Special Issue addresses recent discussions of the potential historical approach of “global microhistory.” The six articles gathered here are based in the study of Africa, South Asia, the northwest Pacific coast of North America, and Europe, as well as in the recent methodologies of global history and microhistory. They focus on methodology and on the empirical study of ways of connecting local spaces and networks with global dynamics. All ar…
Commodity frontiers
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Slavery, Atlantic trade and skills
We challenge the idea that Britain s short-lived industrial primacy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries is explained by comparative advantage in high-level artisan skills possessed by an elite workforce. Skills were vital to the industrial revolution but the timing of change and its regional concentration suggest that Britain s rise to dominance in Atlantic trade was the major causal factor. Rapidly growing markets in Africa and the America…
Sea Otters and Iron
commodity. Exchange, value and equivalence marked what was to happen on this part of the north-west Pacific over a brief twenty-year period
Asia–Europe trade
The maritime trade in Asian luxury and manufactured goods that reconfigured the material cultures of the Islamic, European and Atlantic worlds during the early modern period. The history of the trade and shipping of these goods was a global phenomenon, not one confined to the Indian Ocean. Historians are now seeking the connections across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Indian Ocean and the South China Seas. Europeans first joined Asian comm…
Dialogues Est-Ouest
À la fin des années 1950 apparut une nouvelle association internationale d'histoire, l'Association internationale d'histoire économique. Dès 1960, elle organisa une série de colloques d'importance qui réunirent des historiens issus de toute l'Europe, d'Union soviétique et d'Amérique du Nord, et aussi, en plus petit nombre, d'autres pays. L'association existe toujours ; ses congrès s'appellent aujourd'hui « congrès mondiaux », et ses participants …
Goods from the East, 1600–1800
Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together established
Goods from the East, 1600-1800
East-West Dialogues
Markets and Manufacture in Early Industrial Europe (Routledge Revivals)
Skill, Craft and Histories of Industrialisation in Europe and Asia
It is time to reexamine craft and small-scale manufacture within our histories of industrialisation, both West and East, and to reflect on the long survival and adaptation of artisanal production even within our globalised world of production and consumption. Historians since the 1950s have addressed craft, skill and labour-intensive production in historical frameworks such as ‘the rise of the factory system’, ‘proto-industrialisation’ and ‘flexi…
Writing the History of the Global
This book brings together a number of the major historians now entering the field, and rethinking the way they write their histories. The book includes the reflections of China experts, historians of India and Japan, of Latin America, Africa, and Europe on their past writing, and the new directions in which global history is taking them. The book shows the rapid advances in the field from early and inspiring questions of encounters between East a…
Useful knowledge, ‘industrial enlightenment’, and the place of India
Research is now turning to the missing place of technology and ‘useful knowledge’ in the debate on the ‘great divergence’ between East and West. Parallel research in the history of science has sought the global dimensions of European knowledge. Joel Mokyr's recent The Enlightened Economy (2009) argued the place of an exceptional ‘industrial enlightenment’ in Europe in explaining industrialization there, but neglected the wide geographic framework…
Craft and Small Scale Production in the Global Economy
India's production of fine luxury and craft goods for world markets was discovered and exploited by Europeans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Textile producers in Gujarat, the Coromandel Coast, and Bengal applied fine craft skills to European designs, colour codes, and textile lengths and widths. Through the intervention of the East India Companies and private traders as well as their intermediaries, brokers and local merchants, weav…
Passionate Projectors
Passionate Projectors: Savants and silk on the Coromandel coast 1780–98 Maxine Berg Silk in India Silk was an industry of longstanding provenance in precolonial India, highly specialized by region and the specific markets it provided. It was well known from the Punjab, Dacca and Bengal, Surat and Ahmedabad, Benares, and Hyderabad; in South India silk and cotton mixes were produced in Mylapore, Tanjore, Trichinopoly and Madurai. Wild silks (moonga…
Luxury, the Luxury Trades, and the Roots of Industrial Growth
Luxury and its discontents have become key areas of debate on our social condition in the late twentieth and early years of the twenty-first century. Luxury has become the common parlance of advertising and branding. It is part of the upscaling of consumer aspirations, and a turning away from the mass consumerism that underpinned consumer society from the 1960s to the 1980s. Aspirations are associated with luxury and designer goods, with lifestyl…
Britain’s Asian Century
Chinese export wares penetrated widely and deeply into European culture; the Embassy was in fact the culmination of a long period which author calls the Asian Century of continuous trade between Britain, China and India. This chapter focuses on China's success in creating major export ware sector in luxury and consumer goods appealing to Western consumers. The trade from Asia by the mid eighteenth century was providing quality ware for Europe's m…
Quality, Cotton And The Global Luxury Trade
Cloth has always been the most global of all traded commodities. It is an illuminating example of the circulation of goods, skills, knowledge and capital across wide geographic spaces. South Asia has been central to the making of these global exchanges over time. This volume presents innovative research that explores the dynamic ways in which diverse textile production and trade regions generated the 'first globalization'. A series of experts con…
Quality, Cotton and the Global Luxury Trade
The cotton industry occupies the key place in explanations of the industrial revolution. This chapter argues that during the period of the industry's crucial technological and organizational changes inventors, manufacturers and merchants prioritized the quality of their products. It surveys recent research on the part played by product innovation and quality improvement as sources of British industrialization in the eighteenth century; and it set…
Selling Consumption in the Eighteenth Century
This article explores the sophisticated visual and textual language of one of the most common, yet overlooked, forms of early advertising – the trade card. Analysis is based on mid-seventeenth- to late eighteenth-century examples within two key collections at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. The rare examples of continental, particularly French, advertising in the latter collection provide the opportunity to com…
The Genesis of 'Useful Knowledge
Rehabilitating the Industrial Revolution
Rehabilitating the industrial revolution. Gradualist perspectives now dominate economic and social histories of the industrial revolution. Analyses of economic change which rely on growth accounting and macroeconomic estimates of productivity indicate continuity with the past; social historians have followed in turning aside from the analysis of new class formations. This article challenges these perspectives. Currently accepted economic indicato…
In Pursuit of Luxury
Journal Article In Pursuit of Luxury: Global History and British Consumer Goods in the Eighteenth Century Get access Maxine Berg Maxine Berg University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 182, Issue 1, February 2004, Pages 85–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/182.1.85 Published: 01 February 2004
The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815-1848
Journal Article The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 181 §-1848 Get access The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815-1848. By Maxine Berg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. 379. £16.00.) Neil De Marchi Neil De Marchi Algemene Bank Nederland, Amsterdam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 361, 1 March 1981, Pages 2…
From imitation to invention
This article presents the history of new goods in the eighteenth century as a part of the broader history of invention and industrialization. It focuses on product innovation in manufactured commodities as this engages with economic, technological and cultural theories. Recent theories of consumer demand are applied to the invention of commodities in the eighteenth century; special attention is given to the process of imitation in product innovat…
What Difference did Women's Work to the Industrial Revolution
Journal Article What Difference did Women's Work to the Industrial Revolution? Get access Maxine Berg Maxine Berg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 35, Issue 1, SPRING 1993, Pages 22–44, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/35.1.22 Published: 01 March 1993
Britain, industry and perceptions of China
Global history has debated the emergence of a divergence in economic growth between China and the West during the eighteenth century. The Macartney Embassy, 1792-94, the first British embassy to China, occurring as it did at the end of the eighteenth century, was an event which revealed changing perceptions of China and the Chinese by different British interest groups from government, trade, industry and enlightened opinion. Many histories of the…
Women's Property and the Industrial Revolution
Women's Property and the Industrial Revolution Women have been workers, consumers, childbearers, and educators throughout history, but as property-holders their identity has been debatable. Their stakes in the holding and transmission of property have varied greatly over time, place, and region according to law, age, and marital status. Recent historical research has provided a rich background on gender and legal history, and on property-holding …
Introduction
This Special Issue addresses recent discussions of the potential historical approach of “global microhistory.” The six articles gathered here are based in the study of Africa, South Asia, the northwest Pacific coast of North America, and Europe, as well as in the recent methodologies of global history and microhistory. They focus on methodology and on the empirical study of ways of connecting local spaces and networks with global dynamics. All ar…
The Genesis of 'Useful Knowledge
Markets and Manufacture in Early Industrial Europe
Sea Otters and Iron
commodity. Exchange, value and equivalence marked what was to happen on this part of the north-west Pacific over a brief twenty-year period
The First Women Economic Historians
Selling Consumption in the Eighteenth Century
This article explores the sophisticated visual and textual language of one of the most common, yet overlooked, forms of early advertising – the trade card. Analysis is based on mid-seventeenth- to late eighteenth-century examples within two key collections at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. The rare examples of continental, particularly French, advertising in the latter collection provide the opportunity to com…
Growth and Change
The aim of our article 'Rehabilitating the industrial revolution' was to broaden the debate about the extent and nature of change in the economy and society of the industrial revolution.' In 'Output growth and the British industrial revolution'2 Crafts and Harley reassert their position on the beginnings of modern economic growth, and dismiss our criticisms as confused and misleading. In doing this they have misconstrued a number of our arguments…
Small Producer Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century England
Recent models of industrial organisation incorporate batch production, flexible specialisation and network capitalism, yet histories of British industry have been written as successes and failures in gaining economies of large-scale production. The factory and the large-scale firm have dominated our ideas of the Industrial Revolution. These perspectives have been reinforced by mythologising from the early nineteenth century onward the divide betw…
Useful knowledge, ‘industrial enlightenment’, and the place of India
Research is now turning to the missing place of technology and ‘useful knowledge’ in the debate on the ‘great divergence’ between East and West. Parallel research in the history of science has sought the global dimensions of European knowledge. Joel Mokyr's recent The Enlightened Economy (2009) argued the place of an exceptional ‘industrial enlightenment’ in Europe in explaining industrialization there, but neglected the wide geographic framework…
Slavery, Atlantic trade and skills
We challenge the idea that Britain s short-lived industrial primacy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries is explained by comparative advantage in high-level artisan skills possessed by an elite workforce. Skills were vital to the industrial revolution but the timing of change and its regional concentration suggest that Britain s rise to dominance in Atlantic trade was the major causal factor. Rapidly growing markets in Africa and the America…
Craft and Small Scale Production in the Global Economy
India's production of fine luxury and craft goods for world markets was discovered and exploited by Europeans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Textile producers in Gujarat, the Coromandel Coast, and Bengal applied fine craft skills to European designs, colour codes, and textile lengths and widths. Through the intervention of the East India Companies and private traders as well as their intermediaries, brokers and local merchants, weav…
Women's Consumption and the Industrial Classes of Eighteenth-Century England
Journal Article Women's Consumption and the Industrial Classes of Eighteenth-Century England Get access Maxine Berg Maxine Berg University of Warwick, Department of HistoryCoventryEngland CV4 7AL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 30, Issue 2, Winter 1996, Pages 415–434, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/30.2.415 Published: 01 December 1996
Manufacture in Town and Country before the Factory
The internal organisation of production before the development of the factory system is still shrouded in historical mystery. How goods were made before machines, how work was organised before the factory system, how artisans and labourers perceived and lived their work are questions to which we have only hesitant and tentative answers. Hitherto, historians have been too concerned with the emerging features of the modern industrial capitalist ord…
Slavery, Capitalism and the British Economy
East-West Dialogues
Eileen Power and Women's History
Progress and providence in early nineteenth‐century political economy
Historiography in recent years has reverted to pessimistic interpretations of the early nineteenth century. Economists now claim slow productivity growth over the period that the economy did not reach 3 per cent per year rates of growth in real output until 1830, and that most industrial sectors apart from cotton and iron were technologically primitive. It is argued that agriculture grew faster in the period from 1700 to 1 760 than it did in any …
Studies in capital formation in the United Kingdom 1750–1920
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access MAXINE BERG MAXINE BERG University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XLVI, Issue CLXXXIII, April 1931, Pages 456–457, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XLVI.CLXXXIII.456 Published: 01 April 1931
The British and India
The Structure of Classical Economic Theory
Short Notices
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access MAXINE BERG MAXINE BERG Balliol CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIV, Issue CCCLXXI, April 1979, Page 456, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIV.CCCLXXI.456 Published: 01 April 1979
The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815–1848
For those who lived through it, Britain's Industrial Revolution was experienced as the Machinery Question. It was far from clear to contemporaries whether the first forms of mechanized factory production heralded an inevitable economic revolution, or were but one course among several which might be modified or eventually rejected altogether, Opinion about the necessity or beneficence of machines was profoundly divided at all levels of society; th…
The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815-1848
Journal Article The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 181 §-1848 Get access The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815-1848. By Maxine Berg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. 379. £16.00.) Neil De Marchi Neil De Marchi Algemene Bank Nederland, Amsterdam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 361, 1 March 1981, Pages 2…
The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy, 1815-1848
The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy, 1815-1848
The Economics of David Ricardo
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access MAXINE BERG MAXINE BERG University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVII, Issue CCCLXXXIII, April 1982, Pages 456–457, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVII.CCCLXXXIII.456 Published: 01 April 1982
Science and the Labour Process
THERE IS A VERY IMPORTANT BOOK waiting to be written on the historical relationship between science and the labour process. It is widely recognized that the current revolution in microtechnology possesses serious implications for the structure of the labour market and the nature of white-collar work, but exactly where this latest stage of labour process development may be situated historically and how and why it is different from other periods of…
Manufacture in Town and Country before the Factory
Manufacture in Town and Country before the Factory
The internal organisation of production before the development of the factory system is still shrouded in historical mystery. How goods were made before machines, how work was organised before the factory system, how artisans and labourers perceived and lived their work are questions to which we have only hesitant and tentative answers. Hitherto, historians have been too concerned with the emerging features of the modern industrial capitalist ord…
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access MAXINE BERG MAXINE BERG University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCCI, October 1986, Pages 1016–1017, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCCI.1016 Published: 01 October 1986
The Age of Manufactures
Introduction Part One Manufacture and the Economy 1. Current Perspectives and New Departures 2. Industries 3. Models of Industrial Transition 4. Agriculture, Resources, Environment 5. Industrial Decline 6. Trade, Consumption and Manufacturing 7. Women, Children and Work Part Two - Paths to the Industrial Revolution 8. Machines and Manual Labour 9. The Rise of the Factory System 10. The Textile Industries: Organizing Work 11. Textile Industries: T…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access MAXINE BERG MAXINE BERG University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIII, Issue CCCCVIII, July 1988, Pages 757–758, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIII.CCCCVIII.757 Published: 01 July 1988
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access MAXINE BERG MAXINE BERG University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIII, Issue CCCCVII, April 1988, Pages 518–519, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIII.CCCCVII.518 Published: 01 April 1988
How the West Grew Rich
Studies in capital formation in the United Kingdom 1750–1920
Most Wonderful Machine
692 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE common with the batter and bailer of clay whose wages were barely at subsistence level. Such divisions within a trade were reflected, too, in the ability to retain privilege within a changed environment. McClel land and Reid show how the shipyard boilermakers adopted a policy of inclusion in relation to the hoíders-on and rivet boys and one of exclusion for platers’ helpers. There is a wealth of detail in …
Most Wonderful Machine
Progress and providence in early nineteenth‐century political economy
Historiography in recent years has reverted to pessimistic interpretations of the early nineteenth century. Economists now claim slow productivity growth over the period that the economy did not reach 3 per cent per year rates of growth in real output until 1830, and that most industrial sectors apart from cotton and iron were technologically primitive. It is argued that agriculture grew faster in the period from 1700 to 1 760 than it did in any …
Markets and Manufacture in Early Industrial Europe
Political Economy in the Twentieth Century
This collection of previously unpublished essays discusses the work of a select number of major intellectuals of the recent past (Joan Robinson, Piero Sraffa, Maurice Dobb, Michal Kalecki, Paul Sweezy and Joseph Schumpeter). These are not the figures who dominated established economic traditions; they stood, rather, outside the mainstream, acting as critics of the capitalist order and of the theory that sought to explain it. More than a study of …
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