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Berkshire Publishing Group

American publishing company

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American publishing company

Field	Value
founded	2000
founder	Karen Christensen
country	United States
headquarters	Great Barrington, Massachusetts
distribution	self-distributed (most of world)
Eurospan Group (Europe)
China Publishers Services (China)
publications	Books, Journals, Databases, Podcasts
topics	World history, big history, international relations, sustainability, Chinese history and culture, global cuisines
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Eurospan Group (Europe) China Publishers Services (China)

Berkshire Publishing Group LLC was founded in 2000 by editor and author Karen Christensen and anthropologist David Levinson as an academic reference book producer, developing encyclopedias for Scribner's, Routledge, Sage, Macmillan, H. W. Wilson, and ABC-CLIO. The company became an independent imprint in 2005, with the launch of Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, edited by William H. McNeill, Jerry H. Bentley, David Christian, et al. In 2009, it began publishing individual course titles as well as major encyclopedias. The company is owned by Karen Christensen and operates internationally from Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Berkshire offers print and online publications on world history, international relations, sports, community, religion and society, popular culture and environmental issues. The publications focus on global perspectives: while many reference publishers and free online sources focus on the "who, what, when, and where" structure for presenting a topic, Berkshire specializes in providing resources from expert contributors who probe for deeper context and analysis, thereby helping to explain how and why.

Berkshire also claims to make special efforts in its reference titles to bring the work of acclaimed scholars to a wide general audience and to high school students.

The company publishes the Dictionary of Chinese Biography,{{cite web | access-date = 2015-05-15 | archive-date = 2012-08-31 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120831031246/http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/brw/product.asp?projID=88 | url-status = live | access-date = 2011-01-02 | archive-date = 2010-12-31 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101231054500/http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/brw/product.asp?projID=65 | url-status = live | access-date = 2011-01-02 | archive-date = 2011-01-19 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110119082546/http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/brw/Product.asp?projID=62 | url-status = live | access-date = 2011-01-02 | archive-date = 2011-04-12 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110412215802/http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/brw/product.asp?projID=86 | url-status = live | access-date = 2011-01-02 | archive-date = 2010-12-09 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101209075210/http://berkshirepublishing.com/brw/product.asp?projid=60 | url-status = live

References

Christensen, Karen. "Catalog". Berkshire Publishing.

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