The past is a foreign country / David Lowenthal.
By: Lowenthal, David
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TextPublisher: Cambridge Cambridgeshire ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985Description: xxvii, 489 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 0521224152; 0521294800 (pbk.)Subject(s): History -- Philosophy | HistoryDDC classification: 901 LOC classification: D16.8 | .L52 1985Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents
Contents:
Summary: Lowentahal looks at the benefits and burdens of the past, how we study the past, and how we change it.
Part I. Wanting the past : 1. Reliving the past: dreams and nightmares -- 2. Benefits and burdens of the past -- 3. Ancients vs. moderns -- 4. The look of age -- Part II. Knowing the past : 5. How we know the past -- Part III. Changing the past : 6. Changing the past -- 7. Creative anachronism.
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Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 413-470.
Part I. Wanting the past : 1. Reliving the past: dreams and nightmares -- 2. Benefits and burdens of the past -- 3. Ancients vs. moderns -- 4. The look of age -- Part II. Knowing the past : 5. How we know the past -- Part III. Changing the past : 6. Changing the past -- 7. Creative anachronism.
Lowentahal looks at the benefits and burdens of the past, how we study the past, and how we change it.
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