Author: 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 o...

This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth c...

Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of th...

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 tre...

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 tre...

What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of know...

What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of know...

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social...

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 ...

Sociologists and historians are not always the best of neighbours, each group tending to perceive the other in terms of the crudest of stereotypes....

Sociologists and historians are not always the best of neighbours, each group tending to perceive the other in terms of the crudest of stereotypes....

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 ...

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 p...

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 int...

Published in a thoroughly revised second edition, Venice and Amsterdam is a comparative history of the elites of these two major cities in early ...

This book provides a critical history of the movement associated with the journal Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the present. Burke argues...

A comprehensive guide to the birds of ChileChile holds a great diversity of habitat types, from the dry deserts of the north and the Andes running ...

This is a fascinating account of the geography, chronology and sociology of one of the major cultural movements in European history.

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 ...

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 ...

The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of co...