Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet. First Printing

Mcneely, Ian F.; Wolverton, Lisa

ISBN 10: 0393065065 / ISBN 13: 9780393065060

Published by London and New York. W. W. Norton & Company, 2008

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London and New York. W. W. Norton & Company. 2008. First Edition/First Printing (1 in number line on copyright page). Hard Cover.White cloth boards with wide blue spine band with embossed silver titles and embellishment. Unclipped jacket and book are as new. Here is an intellectual entertainment, a sweeping history of the key institutions that have organized knowledge in the West from the classical period onward. Beginning in Alexandria and its great center of Hellenistic learning and imperial power, we then see the monastery in the wilderness of a collapsed civilization, the rambunctious universities of the late medieval cities, and the thick social networks of the Enlightenment republic of letters. The development of science and the laboratory as a dominant knowledge institution brings us to the present, seeking patterns in the new digital networks of knowledge.Full of memorable characters, this fresh history succeeds in restoring the strangeness and the significance of the past. Please refer to shipping rates in Libris storefront rather than default amounts. If your destination is not included please contact for a quote by return. If your payment exceeds postage, we will refund the difference. Where possible all deliveries are tracked. You can choose an economy international rate but this is usually by sea and will take longer to arrive. Paypal welcome.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet. First Printing
• Publisher: London and New York. W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393065065
• ISBN 13: 9780393065060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

A dazzling intellectual history of the West served up with verve and insight by two brilliant young historians.

Here is an intellectual entertainment, a sweeping history of the key institutions that have organized knowledge in the West from the classical period onward. With elegance and wit, this exhilarating history alights at the pivotal points of cultural transformation. The motivating question throughout: How does history help us understand the vast changes we are now experiencing in the landscape of knowledge?Beginning in Alexandria and its great center of Hellenistic learning and imperial power, we then see the monastery in the wilderness of a collapsed civilization, the rambunctious universities of the late medieval cities, and the thick social networks of the Enlightenment republic of letters. The development of science and the laboratory as a dominant knowledge institution brings us to the present, seeking patterns in the new digital networks of knowledge.Full of memorable characters, this fresh history succeeds in restoring the strangeness and the significance of the past.

About the Authors

Ian F. McNeely teaches at the University of Oregon and lives in Eugene.

Lisa Wolverton teaches at the University of Oregon and lives in Eugene.