Author: James Aitken Wylie
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Category : Protestantism
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
The History of Protestantism with Five Hundred and Fifty Illustrations by the Best Artist
Author: James Aitken Wylie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Protestantism
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Protestantism
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Too Big to Know
Author: David Weinberger
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465038727
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger. . . . Too Big To Know is an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of the information explosion." -- Steven Rosenbaum, Forbes With the advent of the Internet and the limitless information it contains, we're less sure about what we know, who knows what, or even what it means to know at all. And yet, human knowledge has recently grown in previously unimaginable ways and in inconceivable directions. In Too Big to Know, David Weinberger explains that, rather than a systemic collapse, the Internet era represents a fundamental change in the methods we have for understanding the world around us. With examples from history, politics, business, philosophy, and science, Too Big to Know describes how the very foundations of knowledge have been overturned, and what this revolution means for our future.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465038727
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger. . . . Too Big To Know is an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of the information explosion." -- Steven Rosenbaum, Forbes With the advent of the Internet and the limitless information it contains, we're less sure about what we know, who knows what, or even what it means to know at all. And yet, human knowledge has recently grown in previously unimaginable ways and in inconceivable directions. In Too Big to Know, David Weinberger explains that, rather than a systemic collapse, the Internet era represents a fundamental change in the methods we have for understanding the world around us. With examples from history, politics, business, philosophy, and science, Too Big to Know describes how the very foundations of knowledge have been overturned, and what this revolution means for our future.
The history of Protestantism
Author: James Aitken Wylie
Publisher:
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Category : Protestantism
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Protestantism
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England
Author: Elise Garritzen
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031284615
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This book traces the transformation of history from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern academic discipline during the second half of the nineteenth century, and shows how this change inspired Victorians to reconsider what it meant to be a historian. This reconceptualization of the ‘historian’ lies at the heart of this book as it explores how historians strove to forge themselves a collective scholarly persona that reflected and legitimised their new disciplinary status and gave them authority to speak on behalf of the past. The author argues that historians used the persona as a replacement for missing institutional structures, and converted book parts to a sphere where they could mould and perform their persona. By ascribing agency to titles, footnotes, running heads, typography, cover design, size, and other paratexts, the book makes an important shift in the way we perceive the formation of modern disciplines. By combining the persona and paratexts, it offers a novel approach to themes that have enjoyed great interest in the history of science. It examines, for example, the role which epistemic and moral virtues held in the Victorian society and scholarly culture, the social organization and hierarchies of scholarly communities, the management of scholarly reputations, the commercialization of knowledge, and the relationship between the persona and the underpinning social, political, economic, and cultural structures and hierarchies. Making a significant contribution to persona studies, it provides new insights for scholars interested in the history of humanities, science, and knowledge; book history; and Victorian culture.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031284615
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This book traces the transformation of history from a Romantic literary pursuit into a modern academic discipline during the second half of the nineteenth century, and shows how this change inspired Victorians to reconsider what it meant to be a historian. This reconceptualization of the ‘historian’ lies at the heart of this book as it explores how historians strove to forge themselves a collective scholarly persona that reflected and legitimised their new disciplinary status and gave them authority to speak on behalf of the past. The author argues that historians used the persona as a replacement for missing institutional structures, and converted book parts to a sphere where they could mould and perform their persona. By ascribing agency to titles, footnotes, running heads, typography, cover design, size, and other paratexts, the book makes an important shift in the way we perceive the formation of modern disciplines. By combining the persona and paratexts, it offers a novel approach to themes that have enjoyed great interest in the history of science. It examines, for example, the role which epistemic and moral virtues held in the Victorian society and scholarly culture, the social organization and hierarchies of scholarly communities, the management of scholarly reputations, the commercialization of knowledge, and the relationship between the persona and the underpinning social, political, economic, and cultural structures and hierarchies. Making a significant contribution to persona studies, it provides new insights for scholars interested in the history of humanities, science, and knowledge; book history; and Victorian culture.
The Peoples of the World: Being a Popular Description of the Characteristics, Condition, and Customs of the Human Family
Author: Robert Brown
Publisher:
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Category : Ethnology, Juvenile and popular
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Ethnology, Juvenile and popular
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1958
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Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1958
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The Athenaeum
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Publisher:
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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The Art Interchange
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
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Athenaeum
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
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