The past is a foreign country
Looks at the benefits and burdens of the past, how we study the past, and how we change it
Print Book, English, 1985
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1985
History
xxvii, 489 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780521224154, 9780521294805, 9788446008163, 0521224152, 0521294800, 8446008165
12052097
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
Includes indexes