The remarkable story of Western polymaths from the fifteenth century to the present day From Leonardo da Vinci and John Dee to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge. Nonetheless, in our current age of specialization, polymaths are often remembered for only one part of their varied achievements. Renowned cultural historian Peter Burke examines the achievements of five hundred Western polymaths from the Renaissance to the present. Burke shows how the rise of the polymath went hand in hand with the rapid growth of knowledge in the age of the invention of printing, the discovery of the New World, and the Scientific Revolution. He also argues that the further growth of knowledge led to the rise of specialization and so to an environment that has become less and less supportive of wide-ranging scholars and scientists.

社会理论对历史学家来说有什么用？历史学对社会理论家又有什么用？作为一位杰出的文化史学家，伯克在此书中对这两个乍看简单的问题作了清晰有力、影响深远的回答。这个经典文本的第2版作了修改和更新，伯克重新检讨了历史和社会科学这两个领域的关系以及它们在最近几十年间的初步交汇。 《历史学与社会理论》的第2版将会通过挑战对历史学和社会科学之角色的当下定位，继续激励学生和学者跨越学科边界。

第一章　理论家与历史学家 第二章　模式和方法 第三章　核心概念 第四章　核心问题 第五章　社会理论和社会变革

在“经典”形式的文化史（以布克哈特和赫伊津哈为代表）遭受质疑以来，文化史领域新见迭出，在研究对象、主题、视角、方法乃至研究者本身等方面都日益多样化。 著名文化史家彼得•伯克在《文化史的风景》中撷取了若干独具特色的研究主题——如社会记忆的历史、梦的历史、心态史，甚至玩笑和姿态的历史——进行细致描绘之余，对文化史的传统、问题、潜力与趋势也做出了总体的反思。他认为，尽管出现了许多重要的研究方法，但“经典”形式之后尚未出现新的“正统”，文化史研究门派繁多，呈现出一幅“众声喧哗”的景象。

本书是法国年鉴学派的批评史，考察了这一史学研究群体自《年鉴》杂志1929年创建之日起六十年的发展历史。毫无疑问，年鉴学派是20世纪影响最大的史学革新运动。在所谓“新史学”的发展过程中，它是最为重要的推动力。 年鉴群体将传统的历史学与地理学，经济学、语言学、心理学、人类学等多种社会科学相结合，把治史领地扩展到了广阔的人类活动领域，开创了一系列的新方法，如问题导向的历史、比较史，历史心理学、地理史、长时段史、系列史、历史人类学等等。 彼得·伯克区分了年鉴学派的发展过程中的三代学人。第一代包括创建者吕西安·费弗尔与马克·布洛赫，他们与传统史学体系开战，创建了《年鉴》杂志，鼓励跨学科合作。第二代由布罗代尔主导，他已经被誉为同时代最杰出的历史学家。第三代包括杜比、勒高夫、勒华拉杜里等当代著名史学家。伯克的分析丝丝入扣，简明扼要，年鉴运动的关键经典与支脉源流均一览无遗。

《什么是文化史》内容简介：文化史的实践已经不限于说英语的世界，它在欧洲大陆、亚洲、南美洲以及世界上的其他地区也蓬勃发展。关于文化史的研究对象及其研究方法，《什么是文化史》一书提供了关键性的指引。杰出的文化史学家彼得·伯克引导我们进入文化史的过去、现在和将来。 伯克从讨论雅各布·伯克哈特和约翰·赫伊津哈所提出的文化史的“经典”术语入手，并考察了从弗雷德里克·安塔尔到爱德华·汤普森等马克思主义者做出的反拨。随后，勾勒文化史近期兴起的概貌，重点尤其是上一代人写作的、常常被称之为“新文化史”的著作。他将新文化史放在自身的文化背景下进行考察，重视历史思考和写作的新方法与女权主义、后殖民主义研究以及日常生活的话语的兴起之间的关联。 《什么是文化史》不仅是历史学专业读者的入门手册，也是关心文化研究、人类学研究和文学研究的读者的必读书。

This text 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), the author 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.

Since its first publication in 1992, New Perspectives on Historical Writing has become a key reference work used by students and researchers interested in the most important developments in the methodology and practice of history. For this new edition, the book has been thoroughly revised and updated and includes an entirely new chapter on environmental history.Peter Burke is joined here by a distinguished group of internationally renowned historians, including Robert Darnton, Ivan Gaskell, Richard Grove, Giovanni Levi, Roy Porter, Gwyn Prins, Joan Scott, Jim Sharpe, Richard Tuck, and Henk Wesseling. The contributions examine a wide range of interdisciplinary areas of historical research, including women's history, history 'from below,' the history of reading, oral history, the history of the body, microhistory, the history of events, the history of images, and political history. Review Peter Burke has assembled a collection of well-written, thoughtful, and highly informative historiographical essays. Historians interested in what their peers in other fields are doing and those who seek to find out what s doing in history will find New Perspectives on Historical Writing well worth reading. . . .Burke must be applauded for assembling such a variety of first-rate essays in so many fields. --Culturefront A must for all historians. --Carlo Ginzburg, University of California, Los Angeles This stimulating book . . . is made up of theoretical and methodological essays written mainly by European historians of Europe. Still, it may help clarify Americanists' thinking regarding recent historiographical innovations. --Wilfred M. McClay, Journal of American History

What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a preeminent cultural historian here offers a far-reaching response to these deceptively simple questions. Peter Burke reviews the emergence of the fields of history and social science and traces their tentative convergence as he reappraises the relations between them.Burke first examines what uses historians have made--or might make--of the models, methods, and concepts of the social sciences, and then analyzes some of the intellectual conflicts that are at the heart of the tension between history and social theory. Throughout, he draws from a broad range of cultures and periods to illustrate how history, in turn, has been used to create and validate social theories.This new edition brings the book up to date with the addition of examples and discussions of new topics such as social capital, globalization, and postcolonialism.