The Past is a Foreign Country - Revisited
The past remains essential - and inescapable. 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. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity. The past is seen and touched and tasted and smelt as well as heard and read about. Empathy, re-enactment, memory and commemoration overwhelm traditional history. A unified past once certified by experts and reliant on written texts has become a frag…
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- ISBN: 978-0-521-85142-8
- EAN: 9780521851428
- Produktnummer: 14849374
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 720 S.
- Masse: H25.3 cm x B17.7 cm x D4.4 cm 1'314 g
- Abbildungen: s/w. Abb.
- Gewicht: 1314
Über den Autor
David Lowenthal is Emeritus Professor of Geography and Honorary Research Fellow at University College London. He is a gold medallist of the Royal Geographical, the Royal Scottish Geographical and the American Geographical Societies, a Fellow of the British Academy and honorary D.Litt. Memorial University of Newfoundland. In 2010 he was awarded the Forbes Lecture Prize by the International Institute for Conservation. His books include The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History (1996), George Perkins Marsh, Prophet of Conservation (2000) and The Nature of Cultural Heritage and the Culture of National Heritage (2005).
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