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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…
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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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MR Peter Burke
Burke reviews the emergence of the fields of history and social science and traces their tentative convergence as he reappraises the relations between them.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
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…
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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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…
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…
Recollections of the Court Room: Or Narratives, Scenes and Anecdotes from Courts of Justice (1859) is a book written by Peter Burke. The book is a collection of stories and…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
With The Convention, The Orders In Council, And The Recent Acts Of Parliament On The Subject. The Whole In English And French.
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…
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 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 scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
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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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…
Peter Burkes
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…
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…
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…
The Public and Domestic Life of Edmund Burke is a biographical work written by Peter Burke in 1854. The book provides a detailed account of the life of Edmund Burke…
The Public and Domestic Life of Edmund Burke, written by Peter Burke and originally published in 1854, is a comprehensive biography of the famous Irish statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke…
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.
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 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…
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.
""Celebrated Trials Connected With The Aristocracy In The Relations Of Private Life"" is a book written by Peter Burke in 1849. The book covers a range of high-profile legal cases…
""Celebrated Trials Connected With The Upper Classes Of Society, In The Relations Of Private Life"" is a book written by Peter Burke and published in 1851. The book is a…
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…
""Celebrated Trials Connected With The Aristocracy In The Relations Of Private Life"" is a book written by Peter Burke in 1849. The book is a collection of accounts of high-profile…
""Celebrated Trials Connected With The Upper Classes Of Society, In The Relations Of Private Life"" is a book written by Peter Burke in 1851. The book is a collection of…
