The past is a foreign country - revisited / David Lowenthal.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York Cambridge Uni Press 2015Edition: Revised and updated editionDescription: 660p. pbkISBN: - 9780521851428 (hardback)
- 9780521616850 (paperback)
- 901 LOW
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| 901 HAS Other histories / | 901 HUY Present pasts : | 901 KOS Futures past : | 901 LOW The past is a foreign country - revisited / | 901 MIG Local histories/global designs : | 901 MOS The angel of history : | 901 NOL Imagination and ciritque : |
"First published as The past is a foreign country, 1985"--Title page verso.
Introduction: An Authorial Credo -- How My Past Became Foreign -- Making This Book -- Themes and Structure -- Part I. Wanting the Past -- Nostalgia : Dreams and Nightmares -- Time Travelling -- Benefits and Burdens of the Past -- Part II. Disputing the Past -- Ancients Vs. Moderns : Tradition and Innovation -- The Look of Age : Aversion -- The Look of Age : Affection -- Part III. Knowing the Past -- Memory -- History -- Relics -- Part IV. Remaking the Past -- Saving the Past : Preservation and Replication -- Replacing the Past : Restoration and Re-Enactment -- Improving the Past -- Epilogue: The Past in the Present.
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