A Social History of Knowledge: From the Encyclopaedia to
Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge,picking up where the first volume left off around at the publication of the French Encyclopedie and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume,it offers a social history (or a retrospective sociology of knowledge) in the sense that it focuses not on individuals but on groups,institutions,collective practices and general trends.The book is divided into 3 parts. The first argues that activities which