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The past is a foreign country / David Lowenthal.
Main entry:

Lowenthal, David.

Title & Author:

The past is a foreign country / David Lowenthal.

Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Description:

xxvii, 489 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes indexes.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-470).
pt. I. WANTING THE PAST : -- 1. Reliving the past: dreams and nightmares -- 2. Benefits and burdens of the past -- 3. Ancients vs. moderns -- 4. The look of age -- pt. II. KNOWING THE PAST : -- 5. How we know tha past -- pt. III. CHANGING THE PAST : -- 6. Changing the past -- ch. 7. Creative anachronism.
Summary:

Looks at the benefits and burdens of the past, how we study the past, and how we change it.

ISBN:

0521224152
9780521224154
0521294800 (pbk.)
9780521294805 (pbk.)
8446008165
9788446008163

Subject:

History Philosophy.
History.
Historiography.
Culture.
Histoire.
Histoire Philosophie.
Historia Filosofía.
Historiographie.
history (discipline)
historiography.
culture note.
Geschiedschrijving.
Cultuurgoed.
Het Verleden.
História (filosofia)
Temps (philosophie)
Historia.
Past - Philosophical perspectives

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 19578
Call No.: ID:87-B6750
Status: Available

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