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The past is a foreign country : revisited / David Lowenthal.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015Edition: Revised and updated editionDescription: 660 sidor illustrationerContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780521616850
  • 9780521851428
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 901 23/swe
Other classification:
  • K:d
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.

"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

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