A Social History of Knowledge II: From the Encyclopedie to Wikipedia by Peter Burke

A Social History of Knowledge II: From the Encyclopedie to Wikipedia

Peter Burke

359 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclop die and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it off...

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