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-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2012.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Gathering knowledges
  • Analysing knowledges
  • Disseminating knowledges
  • Employing knowledges
  • Losing knowledges
  • Dividing knowledges
  • Geographies of knowledge
  • Sociologies of knowledge
  • Chronologies of knowledge.