Télécharger le livre :  Play in Renaissance Italy
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From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible introduction to play in Renaissance Italy, Peter Burke, celebrated historian of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-07-07

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Télécharger le livre :  A Social History of the Media
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The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of communication media and of the social and cultural contexts within which they emerged and evolved over time.This fourth...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-04-20

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Télécharger le livre :  What is Cultural History?
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What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully updated in its third edition, leading historian Peter Burke offers afresh his accessible account of the past, present and future of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-07-12
Collection : What is History?
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Télécharger le livre :  History and Social Theory
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What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a pre-eminent cultural historian here offers a far-reaching response to these deceptively simple questions. In this classic text, now revised and updated in...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-07-26

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Télécharger le livre :  What is the History of Knowledge?
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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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-12-29
Collection : What is History?
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Télécharger le livre :  The French Historical Revolution
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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’. Renowned...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-01-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The Italian Renaissance
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In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Cultural Hybridity
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The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips – recently voted the favourite dish in...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-08-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Varieties of Cultural History
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The aim of this book is both to illustrate and to discuss some of the main varieties of cultural history which have emerged since the questioning of what might be called its "classic" form, exemplified in the work of Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga. Among the themes...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-07-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Social History of Knowledge
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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 Encyclopédie. The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-31

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Télécharger le livre :  The Fortunes of the Courtier
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This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-29

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Télécharger le livre :  The French Historical Revolution
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This book provides a critical history of the movement associated with the journal Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the present. Burke argues that this movement has been the single most important force in the development of what is sometimes called the 'new...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-29
Collection : Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Télécharger le livre :  The Art of Conversation
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The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years. Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses their concept while...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-25

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Télécharger le livre :  A Social History of Knowledge II
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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 Encyclopédie and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it offers a social history...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Cultural Hybridity
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The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips – recently voted the favourite dish in...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-16

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