The Past is a Foreign Country Revisited

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2015
Author
Author: David Lowenthal
Language
English
Number of Pages
660 pp.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
City
Cambridge, England
ISBN
9780521851428
Annotation

First published as "The past is a foreign country", 1985. 

Contents: 

  • Introduction: An Authorial Credo
  • How My Past Became Foreign
  • Making This Book
  • Themes and Structure 

Part 1. Wanting the Past 

  • Nostalgia : Dreams and Nightmares
  • Time Travelling
  • Benefits and Burdens of the Past 

Part 2. Disputing the Past 

  • Ancients Vs. Moderns: Tradition and Innovation
  • The Look of Age: Aversion
  • The Look of Age: Affection 

Part 3. Knowing the Past 

  • Memory
  • History
  • Relics 

Part 4. 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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