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The Past is a Foreign Country
Abstract
List of illustrations Introduction Part 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 Part II. Knowing The Past: 5. How we know the past Part III. Changing The Past: 6. Changing the past 7. Creative anachronism Bibliography and citation index General index.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Webb, E., & Lowenthal, D.
- Venue
- The American Historical Review
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1986-12
- Volume
- 91
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1158
- ISSN
- 0002-8762 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1971707653
- Cited by
- 3,632
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 312.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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