{"product_id":"social-history-of-knowledge-9780745624853","title":"Social History of Knowledge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 Encyclopedie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In Peter Burke's scholarly hands the notion of a social history of knowledge sheds its philosophical provocation and becomes judicious, prudent and historically rich. A beautifully written and accessible exercise in historical synthesis.' \u003ci\u003eSteven Shapin, author of \"A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England\" (1994) and Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Peter Burke is an exceptional historian: a polyglot, at home in a dozen languages; an intellectual, who is well versed in theoretical developments adjacent to history; a superb expositor, with the capacity to distil his findings in unpretentious and limpidly accessible prose; and an author of unflagging vitality, whose prolific studies in the cultural history of early modern Europe and in modern historiography constitute a formidable \u003ci\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e ... He has succeeded in producing a balanced, judicious and highly stimulating work of synthesis. His book will be an indispensable starting point for years to come.' \u003ci\u003eKeith Thomas, History Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Burke has made a significant contribution to cultural history ... [He] shows how knowledge was a form of exchange and how it became what we would recognize it as today. Burke's achievement in A Social History of Knowledge is to remind us that people in the past did not view knowledge in the same way as we do today.' \u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations. \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Sociologies and Histories of Knowledge: an Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Professing Knowledge: the European Clerisy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Establishing Knowledge: Institutions Old and New.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Locating Knowledge: Centres and Peripheries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassifying Knowledge: Curricula, Libraries and Encyclopaedias.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Controlling Knowledge: Churches and States.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Selling Knowledge: the Market and the Press.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Acquiring Knowledge: The Reader's Share.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Trusting and Distrusting Knowledge; a Coda.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49526995910999,"sku":"9780745624853","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745624853.jpg?v=1731866165","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/social-history-of-knowledge-9780745624853","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}