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Language: en
Pages: 648
Authors: Peter Burke
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-06 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach toexamine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe fromthe invention of printing to the
A Social History of Knowledge II
Language: en
Pages: 389
Authors: Peter Burke
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-17 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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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 Ency
Toward a Social History of Knowledge
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Fritz Ringer
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-01-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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One of the foremost historians of intellectual life and education in Germany, Fritz Ringer has brought together in this volume several of his articles, most of
A Social History of Truth
Language: en
Pages: 516
Authors: Steven Shapin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-11-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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A Social History of Truth is a bold theoretical and historical exploration of the social conditions that make knowledge possible in any period and in any endeav
A History of Knowledge
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Charles Van Doren
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-03-17 - Publisher: Ballantine Books

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A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from t