The past is a foreign country : revisited / David Lowenthal.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015Edition: Revised and updated editionDescription: 660 sidor illustrationerContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780521616850
- 9780521851428
- 901 23/swe
- K:d
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"First published as The past is a foreign country, 1985"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Lowenthal