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What is the History of Knowledge?

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

What is the History of Knowledge?

By Peter Burke

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About the book

What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, knowledges in the plural ) and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural history. Leading cultural historian, Peter Burke, draws upon examples of this new kind of history from different periods and from the history of India, East Asia and the Islamic w...Show more

History of scholarship (principally of social sciences and humanities)

Peace studies and conflict resolution

Decolonisation of knowledge / Decoloniality

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9780745669847

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Polity Press

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2015

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