Лучшие книги Питера Берка

Один из ведущих современных историков Питер Бёрк предлагает существенно обновленный во втором издании путеводитель по прошлому, настоящему и будущему культуральной истории не только в англоговорящем мире, но и в континентальной Европе, Азии, Южной Америке.
Бёрк начинает с рассмотрения "классического" этапа культуральной истории, связанного с именами Якоба Буркхардта и Йохана Хейзинги, и марксистской реакции на него от Фредерика Антала до Эдварда Томпсона. Далее он предлагает картографию направлений культуральной истории в более позднее время, уделяя внимание преимущественно исследовательской активности представителей сегодняшнего поколения. Погружая культуральную историю в ее собственный культурный контекст, Бёрк акцентирует связи между новыми подходами к исторической мысли (и ее текстуальному выражению) и развитием феминизма, постколониальных исследований и повседневного дискурса, в котором идея культуры играет все более важную роль. Им также сделан обзор последних инноваций в этом исследовательском поле и обозначены возможные направления культуральной истории в XXI в.
Книга адресована всем интересующимся историей, антропологией, культурологией и литературоведением.

Обычно под полиматами понимают универсальных людей, одаренных в разных областях. Как ни странно, эти удивительные личности, наделенные почти сверхъестественными способностями, почти не изучены как явление. Книга известного историка Питера Бёрка — удачная попытка восполнить этот пробел. Согласно его определению, полиматы — не просто эрудиты с широкими интересами, а ученые, обладающие энциклопедическими знаниями о предмете или его существенном сегменте. В чем состоит их уникальность и можно ли их классифицировать? Какие черты — врожденные или приобретенные — способствуют полиматии? Насколько важны для этих людей социокультурные и…

Какое место занимают изображения среди других видов исторических свидетельств? Питер Берк рассматривает графику, живопись, фотографии, кинематограф и другие визуальные источники разных эпох и стран и исследует их практическое использование в истории. Убедительно защищая важность визуального для истории, Берк утверждает, что изображения не следует рассматривать просто как отражение своего времени и места, а скорее как продолжение социальных контекстов, в которых они были созданы, — то есть политического строя, религиозной ситуации, культурных и региональных особенностей.

Пітэр Бэрк – прафесар гісторыі культуры Кембрыджскага ўніверсітэта і сябар навуковай рады коледжа Эмануэля.

Гэтая кніга – першы, але ўпэўнены крок на шляху да агульнай пераацэнкі стасункаў гісторыі і сацыяльных навук.

"In this magisterial new study, Peter Burke explores the social and cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe between the invention of printing and the French Revolution, arguing that, from a linguistic point of view, 1450 to 1789 should be regarded as a distinct period." One major theme of the book is the relation between languages and communities (regions, churches, occupations and genders, as well as nations) and the place of language as a way of identifying others, as well as a symbol of one's own identity. A second, linked theme is that of competition: between Latin and the vernaculars, between different vernaculars, dominant and subordinate, and finally between different varieties of the same vernacular, such as standard languages and dialects.

"Eyewitnessing" evaluates the place of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of images by region, period and medium, and looking at the pragmatic uses of images (e.g. the Bayeux Tapestry, an engraving of a printing press, a reconstruction of a building), Peter Burke sheds light on our assumption that these practical uses are 'reflections' of specific historical meanings and influences. He also shows how this assumption can be problematic. Traditional art historians have depended on two types of analysis when dealing with visual imagery, iconography and iconology. Burke describes and evaluates these approaches, concluding that they are insufficient. Focusing instead on the medium as message and on the social contexts and uses of images, he discusses both religious images and political ones, also looking at images in advertising and as commodities. Ultimately, Burke's purpose is to show how iconographic and post-iconographic methods - psychoanalysis, semiotics, viewer response, deconstruction - are both useful and problematic to contemporary historians.

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Пераклад паводле Peter Burke. The Ranaissance. Macmillan Press LTD, 1987

У сваёй кнізе знакаміты навуковец з Кембрыджа дыстанцуецца ад агульнапрынятага погляду на Рэнесанс як на з’яву чыста італьянскую, новую, якую лёгка аддзяліць ад часоў Сярэднявечча. Ён падкрэслівае захаванне сярэднявечных традыцый у літаратуры і мастацтве, працэс творчай адаптацыі класічных форм і каштоўнасцяў да новага культурнага і сацыяльнага кантэксту як у Італіі, так і па ўсёй Еўропе.

Аўтар разглядае праявы Рэнесансу ў мастацтве, літаратуры і музыцы, пачынаючы з яго вытокаў і завяршаючы XVII ст., калі моцны рух распаўся на нязначныя плыні.

Cultural Hybridity

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 world as well as from Europe and the Americas. He discusses some of the main concepts used by scholars working in the field, among them ‘order of knowledge’, ‘situated knowledge’ and ‘knowledge society’. This book tells the story of the transformation of relatively raw ‘information’ into knowledge via processes of classification, verification and so on, the dissemination of this knowledge and finally its employment for different purposes, by governments, corporations or private individuals. A concluding chapter identifies central problems in the history of knowledge, from triumphalism to relativism, together with attempts to solve them.

The only book of its kind yet to be published, What is the History of Knowledge? will be essential reading for all students of history and the humanities in general, as well as the interested general reader.

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 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 appear to be timeless - gathering knowledge, analysing, disseminating and employing it - are in fact time-bound and take different forms in different periods and places. The second part tries to counter the tendency to write a triumphalist history of the 'growth' of knowledge by discussing losses of knowledge and the price of specialization. The third part offers geographical, sociological and chronological overviews, contrasting the experience of centres and peripheries and arguing that each of the main trends of the period - professionalization, secularization, nationalization, democratization, etc, coexisted and interacted with its opposite.

As ever, Peter Burke presents a breath-taking range of scholarship in prose of exemplary clarity and accessibility. This highly anticipated second volume will be essential reading across the humanities and social sciences.

Written by two leading social and cultural historians, the first edition of A Social History of the Media has become a classic textbook, providing a masterful overview of communication media and of the social and cultural contexts within which they emerged and evolved over time.

In this new and revised edition, Asa Briggs and Peter Burke have updated their classic study to cover the exciting media developments of the early 21st Century. In addition to the classic material exploring the continuing importance of oral and manuscript communication, the rise of print and the relationship between physical transportation and social communication, a new chapter on multimedia now extends the far-reaching scope of this book. New media technologies are treated in new depth throughout the latter sections and the book concludes with an account of the convergences associated with digital communication technology, the rise of the internet and the phenomenon of globalization.

Avoiding technological determinism and rejecting assumptions of straightforward evolutionary progress, this book brings out the rich and varied histories of communication media. It will be an ideal text for students in history, media and cultural studies and journalism, but it will also appeal to a wide general readership. It has already been translated into more than ten languages.

In this work Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe, from the invention of printing, to the publication of the French Encyclopaedie. The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions (especially universities and academies) which encouraged or discouraged intellectual innovation. Then, in a series of separate chapters, Burke explores the geography, anthropology, politics and economics of knowledge, focusing on the role of cities, academies, states and markets in the process of gathering, classifying, spreading and sometimes concealing information. The final chapters deal with knowledge from the point of view of the individual reader, listener, viewer or consumer, including the problem of the reliability of knowledge discussed so vigorously in the 17th century. One of the most original features of this book is its discussion of knowledges in the plural.

Кніга адлюстроўвае агульную для гуманітарных навук апошніх дзесяцігоддзяў тэндэнцыю — павышаную цікавасць да народнай (традыцыйнай) культуры. Пры гэтым упершыню навуковым абагульненнем ахоплены культурны арэал ўсёй Эўропы ад Ірляндыі да Урала. Аўтар раскрывае асноўныя заканамернасці развіцця народнай культуры Эўропы ранняга Новага часу, паказвае яе галоўныя накірункі і канстанты. У кнізе грунтоўна асветлены функцыянальная прырода народнай культуры, яе жанры і асноўныя персанажы. Адрасаваная даследнікам у галіне гісторыі, этналогіі, мастацтвазнаўства, лектарам і студэнтам, яна будзе цікавая і для шырокага кола чытачоў.

From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible introduction to play in Renaissance Italy, Peter Burke, celebrated historian of the Italian Renaissance, synthesizes over forty years’ research, explores the various forms of play in this period, and offers an overview that reveals the many connections between its different domains. While play could be rough, the Church played an increasing role in determining acceptable and unacceptable forms of play, and, after campaigns against violence and obscenity, much of the licentiousness characteristic of the early Renaissance was tamed. This entertaining study of play reveals much about the culture of Renaissance Italy, and illuminates an essential element in human life.

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Mental health aides job, or to apply for a better job. What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger document, be much better prepared and a step ahead for the next opportunity. The book comes filled with useful cheat sheets. It helps you get your career organized in a tidy, presentable fashion. It also will inspire you to produce some attention-grabbing cover letters that convey your skills persuasively and attractively in your application packets. After studying it, too, you'll be prepared for interviews, or you will be after you conducted the practice sessions where someone sits and asks you potential questions. It makes you think on your feet! This book makes a world of difference in helping you stay away from vague and long-winded answers and you will be finally able to connect with prospective employers, including the one that will actually hire you. This book successfully challenges conventional job search wisdom and doesn't load you with useful but obvious suggestions ('don't forget to wear a nice suit to your interview,' for example). Instead, it deliberately challenges conventional job search wisdom, and in so doing, offers radical but inspired suggestions for success. Think that 'companies approach hiring with common sense, logic, and good business acumen and consistency?' Think that 'the most qualified candidate gets the job?' Think again! Time and again it is proven that finding a job is a highly subjective business filled with innumerable variables. The triumphant jobseeker is the one who not only recognizes these inconsistencies and but also uses them to his advantage. Not sure how to do this? Don't worry-How to Land a Top-Paying Mental health aides Job guides the way. Highly recommended to any harried Mental health aides jobseeker, whether you want to work for the government or a company. You'll plan on using it again in your efforts to move up in the world for an even better position down the road. This book offers excellent, insightful advice for everyone from entry-level to senior professionals. None of the other such career guides compare with this one. It stands out because it: 1) explains how the people doing the hiring think, so that you can win them over on paper and then in your interview; 2) has an engaging, reader-friendly style; 3) explains every step of the job-hunting process – from little-known ways for finding openings to getting ahead on the job. This book covers everything. Whether you are trying to get your first Mental health aides Job or move up in the system, get this book.

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological approach, Peter Burke is concerned with not only the finished works of Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci and others, but also with the social background, patterns of recruitment and means of subsistence of this ‘cultural elite’. New to this edition is a fully revised introduction focusing on what Burke terms ‘the domestic turn’ in Renaissance studies and discussing the relation of the Renaissance to global trends. He thus makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Italian Renaissance, and to our comprehension of the complex relations between culture and society. This thoroughly revised and updated third edition is richly illustrated throughout. It will have a wide appeal among historians, sociologists and anyone interested in one of the most creative periods of European history.

Disability and Impairment introduces professionals working with families to the everyday issues faced by disabled people of all ages in family life. Peter C Burke shows how social attitudes shape the world of the 'disabled family' either positively or negatively and the effects of stigma. He demonstrates the normality of disability – that children are children whatever their label – and the need for a sensitive professional understanding of the impact of both physical and learning disabilities on family members, in order to improve their quality of life. This book covers the spectrum of disability issues, and offers information and advice for professionals working with families and disability, explaining the value of family support, how to validate the feelings of siblings with disabled brothers and sisters, tackling social exclusion and understanding the role of lifelong professional help. Case studies and practice notes make this an accessible reference for social work students and practitioners.

How is knowledge measured? How long does it take us to reflect on something and how long to express our thoughts? Such is the dilemma that the human, social and economic sciences go through, since they face the challenge of understanding complex processes when confronting the urgency of standards, measurements and forms of qualitative and quantitative evaluation that respond to notions of utility, productivity and viability, defined within social, cultural and political realities discordant with those models.Peter Burke. Knowledge, Culture, and Society, compiles a series of conferences given by Peter Burke during his visit to Medell?n, but also includes some unpublished works. It constitutes the first publication in English by the Editorial Center of the Faculty, aimed at the internationalization of our programs and to support the acquisition of a second language. It is also one of three publications commemorating the FCHE's 40th Anniversary: the historical review 40 A?os Creciendo, Escribiendo y Publicando, the Historia de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Econ?micas (1975-2015), and now, this academic jewel that encourages the reflection upon our disciplines and the sources that support us as academics and researchers. I hope that Peter Burke. Knowledge, Culture, and Society provides the tools for an interdisciplinary discussion about knowledge in the social and human sciences today, as well as important considerations about the research and methodological challenges posed to us every day. Yobenj Aucardo Chicangana-Bayona Dean