The Past Is a Foreign Country |
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| Author:
| Lowenthal, David |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-85142-8 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2015 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $135.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.