Author:Lowenthal, David. In this remarkably wide-ranging book Professor Lowenthal analyses the ever-changing role of the past in shaping our lives. Profusely 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 affairs.
