Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500-2000 /

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In this wide-ranging consideration of intellectual diasporas, historian Peter Burke questions what distinctive contribution to knowledge exiles and expatriates have made. The answer may be summed up in one word: deprovincialization. Historically, the encounter between scholars from different culture...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Burke, Peter, 1937- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:Menahem Stern Jerusalem lectures.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Aliens > Intellectual life.
Exiles > Intellectual life.
Multiculturalism.
Knowledge, Theory of > History.
Learning and scholarship > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Dror Wahrman
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The view from the edge
  • 2. A global topic
  • 3. Early modern exiles
  • 4. Three types of expatriate
  • 5. The great exodus
  • A comment on Brexit
  • Appendix. One hundred female refugee scholars in the humanities, 1933-1941.

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