· Paperback. English. By (author) David Lowenthal. Share. Also available in. Hardback US$ 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. · 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 /5(6). · 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.
The past is a foreign country. [David Lowenthal] -- Looks at the benefits and burdens of the past, how we study the past, and how we change it. Home. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Search. Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Contacts Search for a Library. Create. David Lowenthal's The Past Is a Foreign Country,-origi nally published in , is an extraordinarily rich and endlessly fascinating meditation on the uses and abuses of the past in modern Western culture. It is indisputably a modern classic, one of a handful of similarly ambitious intellectual histories written by geographers on themes. 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.
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. The Past is a Foreign Country David Lowenthal, Professor Emeritus David Lowenthal, Lowenthal David Cambridge University Press, - History - pages. The past is a foreign country by Lowenthal, David. Publication date Topics History -- Philosophy, History Publisher.
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