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The past is a foreign country - revisited
- Title
- The past is a foreign country - revisited / David Lowenthal.
- Author
- Lowenthal, David
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2015]
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 660 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Uniform Title
- Past is a foreign county
- Alternative Title
- Past is a foreign county
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-638) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFF 15-1535
- ISBN
- 9780521851428 (hardback)
- 0521851424 (hardback)
- 9780521616850 (paperback)
- 0521616859 (paperback)
- LCCN
- 2013000789
- OCLC
- 825050398
- Author
- Lowenthal, David, author.
- Title
- The past is a foreign country - revisited / David Lowenthal.
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2015]
- Edition
- [Revised and updated edition].
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-638) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 15-1535