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Peter Burke
A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day
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This is the second book in the Student Veteran's Experience with Higher Education series. This book focuses on the importance of support during your academic journey. Your support system is…
Carlo Ginzburg
Carlo Ginzburg builds up a portrait of Piero della Francesca’s patrons and explains the contemporary intrigues resonant in his paintings. This edition includes additional material dealing with the work of…
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Burke reviews the emergence of the fields of history and social science and traces their tentative convergence as he reappraises the relations between them.
The second edition of this indispensable review of the emergence of the fields of history and social science and traces their tentative convergence as he reappraises the relations between them.
Professor Peter Burke (Emmanuel College Cambridge)
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
With contributions by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke - Bishop Athanasius Schneider - Phillip Campbell - Stuart Chessman - Charles A. Coulombe - Roberto de Mattei - Edward Feser - Timothy…
Recollections of the Court Room: Or Narratives, Scenes and Anecdotes from Courts of Justice is a book written by Peter Burke and published in 1859. The book provides a fascinating…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
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This 19th-century treatise is a comprehensive guide to the complex and ever-changing world of international copyright law. Its author, Peter Burke, provides an in-depth analysis of the legal frameworks governing…
Strange markings are found in a twelfth-century wall. A retired stonemason seeks to unravel a hidden message carved in haste by an ancient stonemason who risked his life to leave…
In this collection of essays, the author explores the theory and practice of new cultural history . He focuses on the varieties of cultural history which have emerged since the…
With The Convention, The Orders In Council, And The Recent Acts Of Parliament On The Subject. The Whole In English And French.
The leading cultural historian Professor Peter Burke offers here several innovative approaches to cultural history. A key topic, from which the volume derives its name, is ‘secret history
This volume gathers Professor Burke’s most important essays on the theory and the practice of history.
The first and most obvious theme is communication, the second is identity, since language and clothes were and are a means to place unknown individuals in their social group.
This journal can help you or a loved one work through the numbness, despair and disorganization of grief, using your head (thinking), your heart (feeling), and your hands (acting).
You…
This is an important study into historical issues raised by the career of the emperor Charles V (1500-58).The concern with the role of the media in politics and the role…
This entirely new volume comprises an important study. It turns on historical issues raised by the career of the emperor Charles V (1500-58). The concern with the role of the…
Sociologists and historians are not always the best of neighbours, each group tending to perceive the other in terms of the crudest of stereotypes. However, the two approaches are obviously…
Within this volume, all the contributions are oriented towards Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and all are concerned with long-term changes, and with the relation between economic growth…
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Presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. This book discusses the social and political institutions that existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and analyses…
Eyewitnessing evaluates the worth of images as historical evidence, examining religious, political, advertising and commodified images. Peter Burke challenges the conventional view that images represent specific historical meanings.
The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to the pioneering…
Burke (cultural history, U. of Cambridge, UK) reviews graphics, photographs, films, and other media from many countries and periods to discuss the important roles images play in relation to other…
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Das Buch wurde speziell fur die Ausbildung von Steuerfachangestellten entwickelt. Die aktuelle vierte Auflage hat den Rechtsstand 2022. Das Buch verwendet mehr als 100 prufungstypische Aufgaben mitsamt Loesungen, ordnet diese…
The low-tech, no grow lights approach to abundant harvest –Cover.
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These ten essays present a historical and critical overview of British historical thought and writing since 1900, focusing on selected periods, regions, disciplines, and themes. Do historians discover or invent…
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, silk and sermons.
In 1846, linguistics professor Fabrice Cleriquot is despatched from Lyon to the Swan River Colony, sent away with…
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The money spent by the French government on the public image of Louis XIV was extensive and succeeded in making him into a god like figure. In this book the…
The remarkable story of Western polymaths from the fifteenth century to the present day
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…
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…
In this text 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…
* 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…
