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

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: Revised and updated editionDescription: xvi, 600 p. : ill.; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780521851428 (hardback)
  • 9780521616850 (paperback)
Uniform titles:
  • Past is a foreign country
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 901 23
LOC classification:
  • D16.8 LOW 2013
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.
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Books in General collection Books in General collection Mzuzu University Library and Learning Resources Centre D 16.8 LOW 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 030355 Available mZulm-030355
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"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.

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