The Past is a Foreign Country
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 29, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780521294805
Subjects: World history; Philosophy; History - General History; History: American; USA; World - General; History / World; History--Philosophy; Reference; 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.
Table of contents: title: Wanting the Past
pagenum: 3
class: section
label: I; label: 1
pagenum: 3
title: Reliving the Past:  Dreams and Nightmares; label: 2
pagenum: 35
title: Benefits and Burdens of the Past; label: 3
pagenum: 74
title: Ancients vs. Moderns; title: The Look of Age
pagenum: 125
label: 4; label: II
pagenum: 185
title: Knowing the Past; label: 5
pagenum: 185
title: How We Know the Past; title: Changing the Past
pagenum: 263
label: III; title: Changing the Past
pagenum: 263
label: 6; title: Creative Anachronism
pagenum: 363
label: 7