A social history of knowledge : from Gutenberg to Diderot / Peter Burke.
"In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organisation of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopedie. The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Fou...
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Cambridge, UK : Oxford ; Malden, MA :
Polity ; In association with Blackwell Publishers,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Sociologies and histories of knowledge: an introduction
- Professing knowledge: the European clerisy
- Establishing knowledge: institutions old and new
- Locating knowledge: centres and peripheries
- Classifying knowledge: curricula, libraries and encyclopedias
- Controlling knowledge: churches and states
- Selling knowledge: the market and the press
- Acquiring knowledge: the reader's share
- Trusting and distrusting knowledge: a coda.