Past Is a Foreign Country

Name: Past Is a Foreign Country
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ISBN: 9780521294805

ISBN-10: 0521294800

ISBN-13: 9780521294805

Edition: 1985

Authors: David Lowenthal

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In this remarkably wide-ranging book Professor Lowenthal analyses the ever-changing role of the past in shaping our lives. A heritage at once nurturing and burdensome, the past allows us to make sense of the present whilst imposing powerful constraints upon the way that present develops. Some aspects of the past are celebrated, others expunged, as each generation reshapes its legacy in line with current needs. Drawing on all the arts, the humanities and the social sciences, the author uses sources as diverse as science fiction and psychoanalysis to examine how rebellion against inherited tradition has given rise to the modern cult of preservation and pervasive nostalgia. Profusely…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/14/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 516
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English



List of illustrations


Introduction



Wanting The Past



Reliving the past: dreams and nightmares



Benefits and burdens of the past



Ancients vs. moderns



The look of age



Knowing The Past



How we know the past



Changing The Past



Changing the past



Creative anachronism


Bibliography and citation index


General index