Professor Peter Burke FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1994
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Early Modern History to 1850
Summary
During my teaching career, at the University of Sussex (1962-79) and Cambridge (1979-2004), I both lectured and wrote on the history, especially the social and cultural history, of Europe (from Galway to the Urals) from about 1500 to about 1700. One focus of interest has been the Renaissance; another, the history of historical thought and writing; a third, the social history of language and a fourth, the social history of knowledge. I have also been concerned, over the last half-century or so, with the relation (actual and ideal) between history and neighbouring disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, geography and the psychologies. Since my retirement I have continued to pursue the history of knowledge, extending my interests to the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe and the Americas. My marriage to a Brazilian historian, Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke, has encouraged an interest in Brazilian history and led to a book that we wrote together about the Brazilian sociologist and historian Gilberto Freyre.
Current post
Formerly Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge
Past appointments
University of Cambridge Formerly Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge
2006 -
University of Cambridge Formerly Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge
2006 -
University of Cambridge Reader, Professor of Cultural History
1988 -
Emmanuel College University of Cambridge Fellow
1979 -
School for Global studies, University of Sussex Reader in Intellectual History
1976 - 1978
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Martin Rudwick FBA
History of earth sciences, especially the reconstruction of the earth's pre-human history, 1750-1850; the history of visual imagery in the natural sciences; epistemic issues in field- and museum-based sciences
Professor Andrew Pettegree FBA
History of the Reformation; book history (Universal Short Title Catalogue) and book collecting, history of libraries, media landscapes and the history of news
Professor Sujit Pradin Sivasundaram FBA
World history, especially since 1750: sciences and environments; race and racisms; the Indian and Pacific Oceans; Sri Lanka and South and Southeast Asia; material cultures; cities; human-animal relations; empires
