The Past is a Foreign Country

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List of illustrations Introduction Part I. Wanting The Past: 1. Reliving the past: dreams and nightmares 2. Benefits and burdens of the past 3. Ancients vs. moderns 4. The look of age Part II. Knowing The Past: 5. How we know the past Part III. Changing The Past: 6. Changing the past 7. Creative anachronism Bibliography and citation index General index.

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Historical and Architectural Studies Classical Antiquity Studies Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

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Published in: The American Historical Review

Volume 91, Issue 5, pp. 1158-1158

DOI: 10.2307/1864381

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