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 Rebecca Earle FBA
History of food; colonial and 19th-century Spanish America; history of the body; colonialism, race and identity in early-modern Europe and the Americas; cultural nationalism in Spanish America; history of clothing
