Picture 1 of 1
Peter Burke Ignorance (Paperback)
Another great item from Rarewaves USA | Free delivery!
Condition:
More than 10 available
Shipping:
Located in: 60502, United States
Delivery:
Varies
Returns:
Payments:
Shop with confidence
Seller information
- 97.7% positive feedback
Registered as a Business Seller
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:335339190452
Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Ignorance : a Global History
- Publication Name
- Ignorance
- Title
- Ignorance
- Subtitle
- A Global History
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0300276508
- EAN
- 9780300276503
- ISBN
- 9780300276503
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Release Year
- 2024
- Release Date
- 09/04/2024
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Item Length
- 7.7in
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Topic
- Sociology / General, Social History
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 9.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
About this product
Product Information
"A fascinating catalogue of the conditions and agency of ignorance"--Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement "A declaration of love for education"--Stefan Bauer, History Today "Dazzling . . . a deliciously knowledgeable history of ignorance"--David Armitage A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of darkness, Enlightenment thinkers tried to sweep superstition away with reason, the modern welfare state sought to slay the "giant" of ignorance, and in today's hyperconnected world seemingly limitless information is available on demand. But what about the knowledge lost over the centuries? Are we really any less ignorant than our ancestors? In this highly original account, Peter Burke examines the long history of humanity's ignorance across religion and science, war and politics, business and catastrophes. Burke reveals remarkable stories of the many forms of ignorance--genuine or feigned, conscious and unconscious--from the willful politicians who redrew Europe's borders in 1919 to the politics of whistleblowing and climate change denial. The result is a lively exploration of human knowledge across the ages, and the importance of recognizing its limits.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300276508
ISBN-13
9780300276503
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4063296551
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ignorance : a Global History
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Social History
Publication Year
2024
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.7in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hm651.B874 2024
Reviews
" Ignorance: A Global History explores the myriad ways in which 'not-knowing' affects our lives, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill. . . . Burke takes all ignorance--rather than all knowledge--for his province. . . . Throughout . . . , Burke peppers readers with a flurry of striking factoids, quotations and anecdotes."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post "From this storehouse of historical data Burke offers a fascinating catalogue of the conditions and agency of ignorance."--Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement "Explores the ways 'obstacles, forgetting, secrecy, denial, uncertainty, prejudice, misunderstanding and credulity' have impacted the course of history, from the redrawing of borders to climate change denial and more."-- New York Times Book Review "[A] fascinating new history of worldwide ignorance."--Peter B. Kaufman, Los Angeles Review of Books "A declaration of love for education which should be read by anyone who is keen to reflect on the relationship between deceptive populism and the absence of knowledge."--Stefan Bauer, History Today A Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023 "Ignorance might seem to be a pressing contemporary problem but, as this dazzling, comprehensive book shows, it has many pasts. Only Peter Burke could have written such a deliciously knowledgeable history of ignorance."--David Armitage, Civil Wars: A History in Ideas "A rich, fascinating book of astonishing range. Burke impresses the need for awe and humility about how much humanity doesn't know or refuses to know, and how this problem shifts and resurfaces across eras."--Linsey McGoey, author of The Unknowers "Delivers a journey through all forms of not knowing, from secrecies to unintended consequences, to different forms of forgetting things formerly known. Burke shows that as more knowledge is generated, the horizon of ignorance can widen--for good or for bad. Burke's new book will not only be a milestone in ignorance studies, but should become standard reading."--Matthias Gross, author of Ignorance and Surprise, " Ignorance: A Global History explores the myriad ways in which 'not-knowing' affects our lives, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill. . . . Burke takes all ignorance--rather than all knowledge--for his province. . . . Throughout . . . , Burke peppers readers with a flurry of striking factoids, quotations and anecdotes."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post "From this storehouse of historical data Burke offers a fascinating catalogue of the conditions and agency of ignorance."--Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement "Explores the ways 'obstacles, forgetting, secrecy, denial, uncertainty, prejudice, misunderstanding and credulity' have impacted the course of history, from the redrawing of borders to climate change denial and more."-- New York Times Book Review "[A] fascinating new history of worldwide ignorance."--Peter B. Kaufman, Los Angeles Review of Books A Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023 "Ignorance might seem to be a pressing contemporary problem but, as this dazzling, comprehensive book shows, it has many pasts. Only Peter Burke could have written such a deliciously knowledgeable history of ignorance."--David Armitage, Civil Wars: A History in Ideas "A rich, fascinating book of astonishing range. Burke impresses the need for awe and humility about how much humanity doesn't know or refuses to know, and how this problem shifts and resurfaces across eras."--Linsey McGoey, author of The Unknowers "Delivers a journey through all forms of not knowing, from secrecies to unintended consequences, to different forms of forgetting things formerly known. Burke shows that as more knowledge is generated, the horizon of ignorance can widen--for good or for bad. Burke's new book will not only be a milestone in ignorance studies, but should become standard reading."--Matthias Gross, author of Ignorance and Surprise, " Ignorance: A Global History explores the myriad ways in which 'not-knowing' affects our lives, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill. . . . Burke takes all ignorance--rather than all knowledge--for his province. . . . Throughout . . . , Burke peppers readers with a flurry of striking factoids, quotations and anecdotes."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post "From this storehouse of historical data Burke offers a fascinating catalogue of the conditions and agency of ignorance."--Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement "Explores the ways 'obstacles, forgetting, secrecy, denial, uncertainty, prejudice, misunderstanding and credulity' have impacted the course of history, from the redrawing of borders to climate change denial and more."-- New York Times Book Review "[A] fascinating new history of worldwide ignorance."--Peter B. Kaufman, Los Angeles Review of Books "Ignorance might seem to be a pressing contemporary problem but, as this dazzling, comprehensive book shows, it has many pasts. Only Peter Burke could have written such a deliciously knowledgeable history of ignorance."--David Armitage, Civil Wars: A History in Ideas "A rich, fascinating book of astonishing range. Burke impresses the need for awe and humility about how much humanity doesn't know or refuses to know, and how this problem shifts and resurfaces across eras."--Linsey McGoey, author of The Unknowers "Delivers a journey through all forms of not knowing, from secrecies to unintended consequences, to different forms of forgetting things formerly known. Burke shows that as more knowledge is generated, the horizon of ignorance can widen--for good or for bad. Burke's new book will not only be a milestone in ignorance studies, but should become standard reading."--Matthias Gross, author of Ignorance and Surprise
Dewey Decimal
306.4/2
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Item description from the seller
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:335339190452
Shipping and handling
Item does not ship to United States
Item location:
60502, United States
Ships to:
Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, Finland, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.), Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara, Western Samoa, Worldwide, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Excludes:
Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belarus, Bhutan, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Germany, Guadeloupe, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Laos, Libya, Martinique, Mexico, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Reunion, Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Yemen
| Handling time |
|---|
| Will usually ship within 2 business days of receiving cleared payment. |
| Taxes |
|---|
| Taxes may be applicable at checkout. Learn moreLearn more about paying tax on eBay purchases |
Sales tax for an item #335339190452
Sales tax for an item #335339190452
Seller collects sales tax for items shipped to the following provinces:
| Province | Sales Tax Rate |
|---|
Return policy
| After receiving the item, contact seller within |
|---|
| 30 days after the buyer receives it |
The buyer is responsible for return shipping costs.
Payment details
Payment methods
Popular categories from this store
Seller feedback (62,684)
c***i (256)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
Fantastic seller! Great communication, fast delivery, secure packaging, item as described. Highly recommend!
r***3 (195)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
Thank you to the seller for excellent ebay retail service in each and every way. Prompt response to sale and dispatch of the item described. Package received on time which was professionally packaged. Thanks .
l***o (38)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
Item as described, shipping next day, prompt communication, well wrapped. Will do more business in futur! Merci! / Thanks.
Product ratings and reviews
More to explore:
- Peter Lovesey Fiction Paperbacks Books,
- Peter Straub Fiction Paperbacks Books,
- Peter Robinson Nonfiction Paperbacks Books,
- Peter Robinson Fiction Paperbacks Books,
- Peter David Nonfiction Paperbacks Books,
- Paperbacks Books,
- Paperbacks,
- Trade Paperbacks Books,
- James Lee Burke Fiction Fiction & Books,
- Paperbacks Books in English