The Archaeology of Time Travel
The Archaeology of Time Travel

Author: Bodil Petersson

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-05-31

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1784915017

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This volume explores the relevance of time travel as a characteristic contemporary way to approach the past. Papers explore various types and methods of time travel and seek to prove that time travel is a legitimate and timely object of study and critique because it represents a significant way to bring the past back to life in the present.

The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited
The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited

Author: David Lowenthal

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 679

ISBN-13: 1139915665

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The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity. The past is seen and touched and tasted and smelt as well as heard and read about. Empathy, re-enactment, memory and commemoration overwhelm traditional history. A unified past once certified by experts and reliant on written texts has become a fragmented, contested history forged by us all. New insights into history and memory, bias and objectivity, artefacts and monuments, identity and authenticity, and remorse and contrition, make this book once again the essential guide to the past that we inherit, reshape and bequeath to the future.