The Past Is a Foreign Country

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.

המשפט הראשון: 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.

שנה

1999

שפה

English

הוצאה

Cambridge University Press

מהדורות

3

עמודים

516

ISBN

9780521294805

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata