Research Catalog

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Description

1. xiii, 660 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Uniform title

1. Past is a foreign county

Alternative title

1. Past is a foreign county

Subject

1. History > Philosophy
2. History
3. Geschichtsphilosophie

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFF 15-1535

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-638) and index.

Author

1. Lowenthal, David, author.

Title

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

Publisher

1. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2015]

Edition

1. [Revised and updated edition].

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-638) and index.

LCCN

1. 2013000789

ISBN

1. 9780521851428 (hardback)
2. 0521851424 (hardback)
3. 9780521616850 (paperback)
4. 0521616859 (paperback)

Research call number

1. JFF 15-1535