What Is the History of Knowledge?

(Part of the What is History? Series)

by Peter Burke

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0745669840

ISBN13:9780745669847

Release Date:December 2015

Publisher:Polity Press

Length:160 Pages

Weight:0.54 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"

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