The Past Is a Foreign Country
Edition: 2Rev Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 660
ISBN-13: 9780521616850
Subjects: World history
First sentence: The miracle of life is cruelly circumscribed by birth and death; of the immensity of time before and after our own lives we experience nothing.
Description: A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. -- from back cover.