Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Social History of Knowledge IICondition: NewSubtitle: From the Encyclopaedia to WikipediaEAN: 9780745650425ISBN: 9780745650425Publisher: Polity PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/20/2011Description: 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 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 arguing that each of the main trends of the period - professionalization, secularization, nationalization, democratization, etc, coexisted and interacted with its opposite. As ever, Peter Burke presents a breath-taking range of scholarship in prose of exemplary clarity and accessibility. This highly anticipated second volume will be essential reading across the humanities and social sciences.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 236mmItem Length: 160mmItem Width: 32mmItem Weight: 680gAuthor: Peter BurkeGenre: HistoryRelease Year: 2011 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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Book Title: A Social History of Knowledge II
Title: A Social History of Knowledge II
Subtitle: From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia
EAN: 9780745650425
ISBN: 9780745650425
Release Date: 12/20/2011
Release Year: 2011
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Publication Name: Social History of Knowledge II Vol. 2 : from the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2012
Subject: Sociology / General, Social History
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 23.6 Oz
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Author: Peter Burke
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 7.6 in
Format: Hardcover
