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A Social History of Knowledge II: From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia
Peter Burke
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Description for A Social History of Knowledge II: From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 570.
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 die 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 ... Read more
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 die 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745650432
SKU
V9780745650432
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99-50
About Peter Burke
Peter Burke is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge.
Reviews for A Social History of Knowledge II: From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia
A glittering cabinet of intellectual curiosities, a systematic study of the collecting, analysing, disseminating, storing, accessing, using and losing of knowledge in the western world from the mid-18th century to the 'information overload' of today ... Within this treasure chest there beats an endearingly human heart; one warms to an exemplary scholar who expresses the earnest hope that readers 'will ... Read more