A social history of knowledge. II, From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia / Peter Burke.
"The book is divided into 3 parts. The first argues that activities which appear to be timeless - gathering knowledge, analysing, disseminating and employing it - are in fact time-bound and take different forms in different periods and places. The second part tries to counter the tendency to wr...
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Main Author: | Burke, Peter, 1937- |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA :
Polity,
2012.
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