What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a pre-eminent cultural historian...
Written by two leading social and cultural historians, the first two editions of A Social History of the Media became classic textbooks, providing a...
What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully updated in its...
In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of...
The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively...
In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social...
This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth...
This book provides a critical history of the movement associated with the journal Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the present. This movement...
The aim of this book is both to illustrate and to discuss some of the main varieties of cultural history which have emerged since the questioning of...