The Heritage Crusade And The Spoils Of History

Author : David Lowenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521635622
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History written by David Lowenthal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paperback edition of a critically-acclaimed 1998 study of the meaning and effects of 'Heritage'.

Author : David Lowenthal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107715981
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History written by David Lowenthal and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paperback edition of a critically-acclaimed 1998 study of the meaning and effects of 'Heritage'.

Author : David Lowenthal
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Possessed by the Past written by David Lowenthal and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Heritage is a most compelling modern cause. In the last quarter century it has expanded from a small elite pastime to a major popular crusade - a crusade to save and celebrate anything and all that we inherit from the past. Everything - from Euro-Disney to the Holocaust Museum, from Balkan enmities to the Northern Irish troubles, from Elvis memorabilia to the Elgin marbles - bears the marks of the cult of heritage. Heritage attachments pervade politics and education and form our views on such diverse realms as heredity, environment, racism, and tourism." "Enthralled by the past, we deploy it for present benefits of every kind. A goodly heritage persuades us we belong to a community of like-minded folk and act within a tradition sanctified by age-old experience. Heritage is all the more valued in a world where turbulent change and global fears make the present seem frightful and the future fearsome. Yet the very zeal with which heritage is pursued leads to countless abuses of the treasured past. Roots and relics become weapons to foment hatred of others, to warp historical truth, to deform our own legacy, to further some class or cause. Despite new recognition that the world's diverse legacies belong to and require the care of all mankind, heritage passions remain animated largely by self-regarding chauvinism." "In Possessed by the Past, David Lowenthal explains the rise of this new obsession with the past and shows its power for both good and evil. He probes the passions that generate a need to find or invent a prideful past - or to mourn a grievous one - and shows how they are similar the world over. He demonstrates why and how relics, ancestry, and memory today, more than ever, become a source of both pride and peril."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Author : Mille Gabriel
Publisher : IWGIA
ISBN 13 : 8791563453
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utimut written by Mille Gabriel and published by IWGIA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies a need to move beyond discussions of ownership, power and control in favour of exploring new kinds of partnerships between museums and the peoples or countries of origin, partnerships based on equitability and reconciliation.

Author : David Lowenthal
Publisher : Rl Innactive Titles
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Good Life written by David Lowenthal and published by Rl Innactive Titles. This book was released on 1997 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In separate chapters on The Tempest, King Lear, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, and A Midsummer Night's Dream (many of which have appeared elsewhere in journals or essay collections), the author explores Shakespeare's philosophy and examines its treatment by other critics, from Ben Jonson to A.C. Bradley. He contends that Shakespeare was an independently thinking follower of the classical philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and explores such themes as the playwright's treatment of the philosopher king, natural versus conventional justice, contending views of the best regime and the best life, the moral character of the universe, the Biblical alternative to classical philosophy, and the Christian view of temperance. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Carol Kammen
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759102538
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Doing Local History written by Carol Kammen and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely revised and updated edition of the guide for local historians.

Author : Simon Ditchfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317741641
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and Heritage written by Simon Ditchfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just what is it that we want from the past? History offers us true stories about the past; heritage sells or provides us with the past we appear to desire. The dividing line between history and heritage is, however, far from clear. This collection of papers addresses the division between history and heritage by looking at the ways in which we make use of the past, the way we consume our yesterdays. Looking at a wide variety of fields, including architectural history, museums, films, novels and politics, the authors examine the ways in which the past is invoked in contemporary culture, and question the politics of drawing upon 'history' in present-day practices. In topics ranging from Braveheart to Princess Diana, the Piltdown Man to the National History Curriculum, war memorials to stately homes, "History and Heritage" explores the presence of the past in our lives, and asks, how, and to what end, are we using the idea of the past. Who is consuming the past and why?

Author : David Lowenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521294805
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Past is a Foreign Country written by David Lowenthal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-11-14 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lowentahal looks at the benefits and burdens of the past, how we study the past, and how we change it.

Author : James W. Loewen
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620974932
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lies Across America written by James W. Loewen and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called "jim-dandy pop history," by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning author "The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history." —Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated—and more timely than ever—version of the myth-busting history book that focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies on monuments, statues, national landmarks, and historical sites all across America. In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of historic sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. New changes and updates include: • a town in Louisiana that was the site of a major but now-forgotten enslaved persons' uprising • a totally revised tour of the memory and intentional forgetting of slavery and the Civil War in Richmond, Virginia • the hideout of a gang in Delaware that made money by kidnapping free blacks and selling them into slavery Entertaining and enlightening, Lies Across America also has a serious role to play in contemporary debates about white supremacy and Confederate memorials.