The Future of the Past

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The Future of the Past

Author	: Alexander Stille
File Size	: 49,7 Mb
Publisher	: Macmillan
Language	: English
Release Date	: 01 April 2003
ISBN	: 0312420943
Pages	: 374 pages

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At a time when technological innovation and globalization threaten to destroy humankind's greatest cultural legacies, those same changes also provide our best hope in preserving that inheritance. In a series of portraits, the author takes us from the Great Sphinx of Egypt to the banks of the Ganges, from the echoing halls of the Vatican to the information-glutted U.S. National Archives, and introduces us to the scholars, preservationists, and eccentrics working to preserve the world's historical riches.

The Future of the Past by Alexander Stille

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The Future of the Past by Alexander Stille

An engrossing look at the cultural consequences of technological change and globalization Space radar, infrared photography, carbon dating, DNA analysis, microfilm, digital data bases-we have better technology than ever for studying and preserving the past. And yet the by-products of technology threaten to destroy--in one or two generations--monuments, works of

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History, Koselleck asserts, emerged in the crucial moment of modernity as a new temporality providing distinctly new ways of assimilating experience. This exploration of the concept of historical time considers the perceived relationships between the present (once the future) & the past (once the present).

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The Future Past of Tourism by Ian Yeoman,Una McMahon-Beattie

This book offers a critical account of the historical evolution of tourism through the identification and discussion of key turning points. Based on these considerations, future turning points are identified and evaluated. The volume provides a continuum between the past and future of tourism. Its central themes are the globalisation

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Ukraine is in the midst of the worst international crisis in East-West relations since the Cold War, and history itself has become a battleground in Russia-Ukraine relations. The Future of the Past shows how the study of Ukraine's past enhances our understanding of Europe, Eurasia, and the world--past, present, and

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