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

By: Lowenthal, DavidMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015Edition: Revised and updated editionDescription: pages cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780521851428 (hardback); 9780521616850 (paperback)Uniform titles: Past is a foreign country Subject(s): History -- Philosophy | HistoryDDC classification: 901 LOC classification: D16.8 | .L52 2013
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books The BIAA David H. French Library
Shelf 66 - Reading Room 		G2f LOWEN 33336 Not for loan BOOKS-000000027453

"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.