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  • by Peter Burke
    £14.99 - 53.49

    A new edition of the best-selling introductory book to cultural history. Written by one of the world's top cultural historians. Brings this primer up-to-date with new material on the turns cultural history is taking in the early 21st Century and further-reaching global examples.

  • by Peter Burke
    £15.99 - 42.99

    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.

  • - The Annales School 1929 - 2014
    by Peter Burke
    £16.99 - 36.99

    This book provides a critical history of the movement associated with the journal Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the present. This movement has been the single most important force in the development of what is sometimes called the new history .

  • by Peter (Emmanuel College Burke
    £20.49

    A work of comparative history which examines the elites or ruling groups of two major cities in early modern Europe. Focusing on the lives of 563 individuals - the procuratori di San Marco in Venice and the aldermen and burgomasters of Amsterdam - the author examines the ways in which the elites recruited themselves, their wealth and their power.

  • - From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia
    by Peter Burke
    £63.49

  • - Culture and Society in Italy
    by Peter Burke
    £17.99

    In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance.

  • by Peter Burke
    £17.49 - 47.99

    However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips to Thai saunas, Zen Judaism, Nigerian Kung Fu, 'Bollywood' films or salsa or reggae music. Some people celebrate these phenomena and others condemn them. This book considers these phenomena.

  • by Peter Burke
    £17.99

    * A new, fully updated edition of a now classic text. * The text has been completely revised to take into account developments of the past 14 years, since History and Social Theory was first published. * Topics which have been added and that are now treated in depth include globalization, postcolonialism and social capital.

  • - Essays on Perception and Communication
    by Peter Burke
    £38.49 - 75.49

    This volume presents an original view of the culture of early modern Italy. The book addresses particular themes - specifically those of perception and communication - as well as serving to exemplify modes of analysis in the currently developing field of historical anthropology.

  • - Centers and Peripheries
    by Peter (Emmanuel College Burke
    £43.99

    Re-examines the place of the Renaissance in European and World history. Views the culture of Western Europe in co-existence with it's neighbours especially Byzantium and Islam. Examines the Renaissance movement in the whole of Europe from the centre to the peripheries.

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