Berkshire Publishing Group

{{Short description|American publishing company}}

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| founded = 2000

| founder = Karen Christensen

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| country = United States

| headquarters = Great Barrington, Massachusetts

| distribution = self-distributed (most of world)
Eurospan Group (Europe)
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| publications = Books, Journals, Databases, Podcasts

| topics = World history, big history, international relations, sustainability, Chinese history and culture, global cuisines

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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

| title = Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography:

| url = http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/brw/product.asp?projID=88

| work = Berkshire Publishing Group and Oxford University Press (digital edition)

| 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

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}} Berkshire Encyclopedia of China,{{cite web

| title = Berkshire Encyclopedia of China:

| url = http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/brw/product.asp?projID=65

| work = Berkshire Publishing Group

| 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

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}} the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability,{{cite web

| title = Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability

| url = http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/brw/product.asp?projID=62

| work = Berkshire Publishing Group

| 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

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}} and the Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History.,{{cite web

| title = Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History

| url = http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/brw/product.asp?projID=86

| work = Berkshire Publishing Group

| 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

}} as well as Patterns of Global Terrorism.{{cite web

| title = Patterns of Global Terrorism 1985-2005: U.S. Department of State Reports with Supplementary Documents and Statistics

| url = http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/brw/product.asp?projID=60

| work = Berkshire Publishing Group

| 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

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