Peter Burke

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Peter Burke, 2009

Peter Burke (born August 16, 1937 in Stanmore ) is a British historian .

Life

Peter Burke was born to an Irish Catholic father and a Jewish mother of Polish and Lithuanian descent and attended a Jesuit school in north London until he was 17 . He then studied at St John's College , Oxford . He has taught at the School of European Studies at the University of Sussex . Since 1978 he has been a professor of cultural history at the University of Cambridge . His research focus is the Renaissance in general and its social history in particular. Another focus is his work on historiography , especially on the Annales school . In what is probably his most famous essay with the programmatic title Did Europe Exist Before 1700? Burke advocated the thesis that European consciousness did not emerge until the 18th century.

Burke is married to the Brazilian historian Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke .

Awards and honors (selection)

Fonts (selection)

  • Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. London: T. Smith 1978, 3rd edition, Ashgate, 2009.
  • Sociology and History. Allen and Unwin, London 1980.
  • Montaigne. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1981.
  • Vico . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1984,
    • German: Vico: philosopher, historian, thinker of a new science. Wagenbach, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-8031-2399-2 .
  • The historical anthropology of early modern Italy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1987.
    • German: Urban culture in Italy between high renaissance and baroque: a historical anthropology. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-10331-2 .
  • The Renaissance. Macmillan, Basingstoke 1987.
  • The Italian Renaissance. Culture and society in Italy. Polity Press, Cambridge 1987.
    • German: The Renaissance in Italy. Social history of a culture between tradition and invention. Wagenbach, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-8031-3565-6 .
  • The French historical revolution: the Annales school, 1929-1989 . Cambridge [u. a.]: Polity Press, 1990.
    • German: The history of the Annales : the emergence of the new historiography. Wagenbach, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8031-2503-0 (updated and expanded in Die Geschichte der Annales. The emergence of the new historiography . Berlin: Wagenbach 2004, ISBN 3-8031-2503-0 .)
  • History and Social Theory (1991)
  • (Ed.) Language, self, and society: a social history of language . Cambridge [u. a.]: Polity Press, 1991.
  • The chief's pig: six essays on historical anthropology. Edited by Rebekka Habermas and Nils Minkmar, translated by Robin Cackett [Carlo Ginzburg's essay was translated by Judith Elze.] Wagenbach, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-8031-2212-0 .
  • The fabrication of Louis XIV . Yale University Press, New Haven 1992.
    • German: Ludwig XIV. The staging of the Sun King. Wagenbach, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8031-2412-3 .
  • Venice and Amsterdam: a study of seventeenth-century elites. Polity Press, Cambridge 1994.
  • The fortunes of the courtier. Polity Press, Cambridge 1995.
    • German: The fortunes of the 'Hofmann'. On the effect of a Renaissance breviary on appropriate behavior . Wagenbach, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-8031-3587-7 .
  • Varieties of cultural history. Polity Press, Cambridge 1997.
  • European renaissance. Blackwell, Oxford 1998.
  • A social history of knowledge: from Gutenberg to Diderot. Polity Press, Cambridge 2000.
    • German: paper and market cry. The birth of the knowledge society. Wagenbach, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8031-3607-5 .
  • Eyewitnessing. Reaction Books, London 2001.
    • German: eyewitness. Images as historical sources. Wagenbach, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8031-3610-5 .
  • New perspectives on historical writing (2001).
  • as editor: History and historians in the twentieth century . Oxford University Press, Oxford [u. a.] 2002.
  • What is cultural history? Polity Press, Cambridge 2004.
    • German: What is cultural history? Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-58442-1 .
  • Languages ​​and Communities in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004.
  • Cultural Hybridity . Polity Press, Cambridge / England and Malden / Massachusetts, USA 2009, ISBN 978-0-7456-4696-1 .
  • A Social History of Knowledge Volume 2: From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia . Polity Press, Cambridge 2012, ISBN 978-0-7456-5042-5 .
    • German: The explosion of knowledge. From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia . Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8031-3651-0
  • Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500-2000 . Brandeis University Press, Waltham, Mass. 2017, ISBN 978-1-5126-0032-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke: The new history. Confessions and conversations. Oxford 2002, p. 129.
  2. ^ Fellows: Peter Burke. British Academy, accessed October 29, 2017 .
  3. ^ Membership directory: Peter Burke. Academia Europaea, accessed October 29, 2017 .
  4. ↑ UZH awards honorary doctorates to cultural historian Peter Burke and nine other personalities. ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. University of Zurich, April 27, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mediadesk.uzh.ch
  5. ↑ About the book .
personal data
SURNAME Burke, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Stanmore