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The past is a foreign country - revisited /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lowenthal, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Edition:Revised and updated edition.
Subjects:
History > Philosophy.
History.
Table of 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.