A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot by Peter Burke

A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot

Peter Burke

268 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy sociology challenging informative medium-paced

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In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopedie. The book opens with an assessment of differen...

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