Peter Burke: Trajectory of an historian

Authors

  • José D’Assunção Barros Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

Th is article gives an overview of the work of one of the best-known foreign historians in Brazil due to the fact that practically all of it has been translated into Portuguese, viz. Peter Burke. It examines his works since the studies about the Renascence and the Absolute Monarchies until his important contribution to historiographical analysis. Interdisciplinarity is pointed out as one of the great characteristics of Peter Burke’s historiography and is shown to refl ect itself in the  several phases of his work.


Key words: Peter Burke, historiography, interdisciplinarity.

Published

2011-05-04