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  • Knowledge, Culture and Society

    by Peter Burke ...
    How is knowledge measured? How long does it take us to reflect on something and how long to express our thoughts? Such is the dilemma that the human, social and economic sciences go through, since they face the challenge of understanding complex processes when confronting the urgency of standards, measurements and forms of qualitative and quantitative evaluation that respond to notions of utility, ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ignorance

    A Global History

    by Peter Burke Y ...
    A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present dayA Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023“Ignorance: A Global History explores the myriad ways in which ‘not-knowing’ affects our lives, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill.”—Michael Dirda, Washington PostThroughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The French Historical Revolution

    The Annales School 1929 - 2014

    by Peter 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 new history’.Renowned cultural historian, Peter Burke, distinguishes between four main generations in the development of the Annales School. The first ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Polymath

    A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag

    by Peter Burke ...
    From Leonardo Da Vinci to Oliver Sacks: the first history of the western polymath, from the Renaissance to the present**"An absorbing group portrait and intellectual history."—**Kirkus Reviews"An admirable mixture of industry and erudition."—Robert Wilson, Wall Street JournalFrom Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What is the History of Knowledge?

    by Peter Burke ...
    Series series What is History?
    What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, ‘knowledges in the plural’) and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural history. Leading cultural historian, Peter Burke, draws upon examples of this ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • A Social History of Knowledge II

    From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia

    by Peter 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 Encyclopédie 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 ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening

    How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 days

    by Peter Burke ...
    The Low-Tech, No-Grow-Lights Approach to Abundant HarvestYear-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers good news: with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the entire year) with no lights, no pumps, and no greenhouse.Longtime gardener Peter Burke was tired of the growing season ending with the first frost, ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • The Connoisseur

    A Cultural History

    by Peter Burke ...
    The connoisseur has been an influential, if somewhat mysterious, figure in the history of art, responsible for making or breaking high-profile collections and reputations and influencing taste, the art market and the field of art history with their pronouncements. But what did it take to become a connoisseur, and how reliable were the great connoisseurs of previous centuries? With the advent of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Social History of the Media

    by Peter Burke, Asa Briggs, Espen Ytreberg ...
    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 evolved over time.This fourth edition has been revised and updated throughout to reflect the latest developments in the field. Additionally, an expanded introduction ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Celebrated naval and military trials

    by Peter Burke ...
    In Celebrated Naval and Military Trials, Peter Burke assembles and interprets notable court-martial proceedings and related cases from Britain's naval and military history, revealing how law, discipline, honor, and political power converged in moments of crisis. The volume belongs to the nineteenth-century documentary tradition of historical compilation, combining narrative commentary with legal ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social History of Knowledge

    From Gutenberg to Diderot

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopédie.The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe

    by Peter Burke ...
    Cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to Peter Burke’s pioneering work, the tools of the cultural historian are now routinely applied to every aspect of history, transforming our understanding of the past.First published in 1978, this study examines the broad sweep of pre-industrial Europe's popular ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD