Saturday, December 14, 2013

Where to begin? 1750, of course!


Peter Burke knows his stuff, as should any Professor Emeritus of Cultural History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. But how does he, and everyone else, know it? That question is the center of his latest book, a sequel to his 2000 Social History of Knowledge: from Gutenberg to Diderot. Resuming his scholarship at the year 1750, Burke continues to study the social trends of knowledge up to the present in A Social History of Knowledge II: from the Encyclopedie to Wikipedia.

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