En este magistral nuevo estudio, Peter Burke explora la historia sociocultural de las lenguas habladas y escritas en Europa entre la invención de la imprenta y la Revolución francesa, sosteniendo que, desde el punto de vista lingü&iacut...
Esta fascinante obra introductoria ofrece una guía accesible al pasado, presente y futuro de la historia cultural, tal como se ha cultivado en el mundo de habla inglesa, la Europa continental, Asia, Sudamérica y otros lugares. Burke comienza...
La forma de escribir la historia ha cambiado radicalmente, hasta tal punto que los historiadores usan el término la nueva historia muy a menudo. Pero ¿qué es la nueva historia y hasta qué punto es nueva?...
Esta historia comparada de dos importantes centros económicos y culturales de la Europa renacentista y moderna, ofrece una metodología original para "abrir los códigos" de la conducta más íntima y cotidiana...
With its innovative format, Debating New Approaches to History addresses issues currently at the top of the disciplines theoretical and methodological agenda. In its chapters, leading historians of both older and younger generations from across the Wester...
From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopedic interests. All too often...
This entirely new volume comprises an important study. The concern with the role of the media in politics and the role of politics in the media has inspired historians, and in particular historians of the early modern period, to investigate the representa...
This entirely new volume comprises an important study. The concern with the role of the media in politics and the role of politics in the media has inspired historians, and in particular historians of the early modern period, to investigate the representa...
Gilberto Freyre was arguably the most famous intellectual of twentieth-century Latin America. He was active as a sociologist, a historian, a journalist, a cultural critic, a deputy in the Brazilian Assembly, a novelist, poet, and artist. Freyre was a ....
Professor Burkeâs new book focuses on three major historical categories: myths, memories and representations. As with all his work, Professor Burke draws on a large range of literature, discussion, ideas from several disciplines, to offe...
This volume gathers Professor Burke's most important essays on the theory and the practice of history. In the first part, the main theme is the way in which concepts borrowed from social and cultural theory may encourage historians to ask new questions...