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Peter Burke What is the History of Knowledge? (Paperback) What is History?

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Language: English Type: Textbook Publication Year: 2015 gtin13: 9780745669847 Item Weight: 3.2 Oz Country of Origin: GB Release Date: 11/20/2015 Format: Trade Paperback Author: Peter Burke EAN: 9780745669847 Series: What Is History? Ser. Publisher: Polity Press Number of Pages: 160 Pages Book Title: What is the History of Knowledge? Item Height: 0.6 in Subject Area: Social Science, History Item Length: 8.5 in Item Width: 5.5 in Subject: Historiography, Sociology / General ISBN: 9780745669847 Publication Name: What Is the History of Knowledge? Genre: Society & Culture Release Year: 2015

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Further Details Title: What is the History of Knowledge? Condition: New Author: Peter Burke Format: Paperback EAN: 9780745669847 ISBN: 9780745669847 Publisher: Polity Press Genre: Society & Culture Topic: History Release Date: 11/20/2015 Description: 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 new kind of history from different periods and from the history of India, East Asia and the Islamic world as well as from Europe and the Americas. He discusses some of the main concepts used by scholars working in the field, among them ‘order of knowledge’, ‘situated knowledge’ and ‘knowledge society’. This book tells the story of the transformation of relatively raw ‘information’ into knowledge via processes of classification, verification and so on, the dissemination of this knowledge and finally its employment for different purposes, by governments, corporations or private individuals. A concluding chapter identifies central problems in the history of knowledge, from triumphalism to relativism, together with attempts to solve them. The only book of its kind yet to be published, What is the History of Knowledge? will be essential reading for all students of history and the humanities in general, as well as the interested general reader. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 217mm Item Length: 140mm Item Width: 14mm Item Weight: 226g Series: What is History? Release Year: 2015 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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