Lowenthal
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Oxfam shop smithdown road in this remarkably wide-ranging book professor lowenthal analyses the ever-changing role of the past in shaping our livessome aspects of the past are celebrated, others expunged, as each generation reshapes its legacy in line with current needsprofusely illustrated, the past is a foreign country shows that although the past has ceased to be a sanction for inherited power or privilege, as a focus of personal and national identity and as a bulwark against massive and distressing change it remains as potent a force as ever in human affairssee oxfam website for delivery information read moredrawing on all the arts, the humanities and the social sciences, the author uses sources as diverse as science fiction and psychoanalysis to examine how rebellion against inherited tradition has given rise to the modern cult of preservation and pervasive nostalgiaa heritage at once nurturing and burdensome, the past allows us to make sense of the present whilst imposing powerful constraints upon the way that present develops
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