The past is a foreign country - revisited /
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
[2015].
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| Edición: | Revised and updated edition. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: An Authorial Credo
- How My Past Became Foreign
- Making This Book
- Themes and Structure
- Part I. Wanting the Past
- Nostalgia : Dreams and Nightmares
- Time Travelling
- Benefits and Burdens of the Past
- Part II. Disputing the Past
- Ancients Vs. Moderns : Tradition and Innovation
- The Look of Age : Aversion
- The Look of Age : Affection
- Part III. Knowing the Past
- Memory
- History
- Relics
- Part IV. Remaking the Past
- Saving the Past : Preservation and Replication
- Replacing the Past : Restoration and Re-Enactment
- Improving the Past
- Epilogue: The Past in the Present.