The Future of the Past (Paperback)

A fascinating tour of the past as it exists today, and of the dangers that threaten it, through incisive portraits of our attempts to maintain it: the high-tech struggles to save the Great Sphinx and the Ganges; the efforts to preserve Latin within the Vatican; the digital glut inside the National Archives, which may have caused more information to be lost than ever before; and an oral culture threatened by a “new” technology: writing itself. Stille explores not simply the past, but our ideas about the past—and how they will have to change if our past is to have a future.

General

Imprint:	St Martin's Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2003
First published:	April 2003
Authors:	Alexander Stille
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-42094-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > History > World history > General
LSN:	0-312-42094-3
Barcode:	9780312420949

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