A Social History Of Knowledge Ii Av Peter (emmanuel College Cambridge) Burke

Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclop¿e and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it offers a social history (or a retrospective sociology of knowledge) in the sense that it focuses not on individuals but on groups, institutions, collective practices and general trends.The book is divided into 3 parts. The first argues that activities which appear to be timeless - gathering knowledge, analysing, disseminating and employing it - are in fact time-bound and take different forms in different periods and places. The second part tries to counter the tendency to write a triumphalist history of the ''growth'' of knowledge by discussing losses of knowledge and the price of specialization. The third part offers geographical, sociological and chronological overviews, contrasting the experience of centres and peripheries and a

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The Italian Renaissance Av Peter (emmanuel College Cambridge) Burke

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses...

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Play In Renaissance Italy Av Peter (emmanuel College Cambridge) Burke

From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible introduction to play in Renaissance Italy, Peter Burke,...

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The French Historical Revolution Av Peter (emmanuel College Cambridge) Burke

This book provides a critical history of the movement associated with the journal Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the present. This movement has been the single most important force in the development of what is sometimes called ¿the...

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A Social History Of The Media Av Asa (chancellor Of The Open University Formerly Provost Of Worcester College Oxford) Briggs, Peter (emmanuel College

The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of communication media and of the social and cultural contexts within which they emerged and...

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A Social History Of Knowledge Ii Av Peter (emmanuel College Cambridge) Burke

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