The Past Is a Foreign CountryDavid Lowenthal

The Past Is a Foreign Country

Name: The Past Is a Foreign Country
ISBN: 9780521294805

David Lowenthal · 1999

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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. -- from back cover.

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.