Heritage has burgeoned over the past quarter of a century from a small élite preoccupation into a major popular crusade. Everything from Disneyland to the Holocaust Museum, from the Balkan wars to the Northern Irish troubles, from Elvis memorabilia to the Elgin Marbles bears the marks of the cult of heritage. In this acclaimed 1998 book David Lowenthal explains the rise of this obsession with the past and examines its power for both good and evil. A brilliant, wide-ranging and entertaining general study of the 'heritage industry' Written by David Lowenthal, the very successful and acclaimed author of the well-known book The Past is a Foreign Country (1985) First published by Penguin Group (in their Viking imprint, 1997) and now available for the first time in paperback
- ISBN: 9780521635622
- Editorial: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 358
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/1998
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
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