Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot

Preface and Acknowledgements.

1. Sociologies and Histories of Knowledge: an Introduction.

2. Professing Knowledge: the European Clerisy.

3. Establishing Knowledge: Institutions Old and New.

4. Locating Knowledge: Centres and Peripheries.

Classifying Knowledge: Curricula, Libraries and Encyclopaedias.

6. Controlling Knowledge: Churches and States.

7. Selling Knowledge: the Market and the Press.

8. Acquiring Knowledge: The Reader's Share.

9. Trusting and Distrusting Knowledge; a Coda.

Select Bibliography.

Index.