The past is a foreign country - revisited /
Lowenthal, David.
The past is a foreign country - revisited / David Lowenthal. - Revised and updated edition. - 660 pages 25cm
"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.
9780521851428 (hardback) 9780521616850 (paperback)
2013000789
History--Philosophy.
History.
D16.8 / .L52 2013
901
The past is a foreign country - revisited / David Lowenthal. - Revised and updated edition. - 660 pages 25cm
"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.
9780521851428 (hardback) 9780521616850 (paperback)
2013000789
History--Philosophy.
History.
D16.8 / .L52 2013
901