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  • Knowledge, Culture and Society

    by Peter Burke ...
    How is knowledge measured? How long does it take us to reflect on something and how long to express our thoughts? Such is the dilemma that the human, social and economic sciences go through, since they face the challenge of understanding complex processes when confronting the urgency of standards, measurements and forms of qualitative and quantitative evaluation that respond to notions of utility, ... Read more

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  • Celebrated naval and military trials

    by Peter Burke ...
    In Celebrated Naval and Military Trials, Peter Burke assembles and interprets notable court-martial proceedings and related cases from Britain's naval and military history, revealing how law, discipline, honor, and political power converged in moments of crisis. The volume belongs to the nineteenth-century documentary tradition of historical compilation, combining narrative commentary with legal ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening

    How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 days

    by Peter Burke ...
    The Low-Tech, No-Grow-Lights Approach to Abundant HarvestYear-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers good news: with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the entire year) with no lights, no pumps, and no greenhouse.Longtime gardener Peter Burke was tired of the growing season ending with the first frost, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Italian Renaissance

    Culture and Society in Italy

    by Peter Burke ...
    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 thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • The Connoisseur

    A Cultural History

    by Peter Burke ...
    The connoisseur has been an influential, if somewhat mysterious, figure in the history of art, responsible for making or breaking high-profile collections and reputations and influencing taste, the art market and the field of art history with their pronouncements. But what did it take to become a connoisseur, and how reliable were the great connoisseurs of previous centuries? With the advent of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • The Silk Merchant's Son

    by Peter Burke ...
    In 1846, linguistics professor Fabrice Cleriquot is despatched from Lyon to the Swan River Colony, sent away with a box full of silkworms to stop him from bringing more disgrace upon the family. Accompanying him on board the Elizabeth are twenty-eight mismatched and misguided Catholic missionaries including Dom Salvado, who seeks to create a Spanish Benedictine monastery deep in the bush, and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Polymath

    A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag

    by Peter Burke ...
    From Leonardo Da Vinci to Oliver Sacks: the first history of the western polymath, from the Renaissance to the present**"An absorbing group portrait and intellectual history."—**Kirkus Reviews"An admirable mixture of industry and erudition."—Robert Wilson, Wall Street JournalFrom Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe

    by Peter Burke ...
    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 Peter Burke’s pioneering work, the tools of the cultural historian are now routinely applied to every aspect of history, transforming our understanding of the past.First published in 1978, this study examines the broad sweep of pre-industrial Europe's popular ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Social History of Knowledge

    From Gutenberg to Diderot

    by Peter Burke ...
    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 knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Art of Conversation

    by Peter Burke ...
    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 reserving the right to qualify their theories where the historical record makes this seem appropriate. Like the sociolinguists, Burke ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Celebrated Naval And Military Trials

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Peter Burke ...
    This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. "Celebrated Naval and Military Trials" by Peter Burke offers a riveting examination of historical legal cases from the British Navy and Army, capturing the intricate dynamics of law, leadership, and loyalty during challenging times. This compelling work takes readers through notable trials involving figures such as ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Varieties of Cultural History

    by Peter Burke ...
    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 of individual chapters are the history of popular culture, the history of Carnival, the history of mentalities, the history of ... Read more

    $24.00 USD