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  • The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History

    by David Lowenthal ...
    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 ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited

    by David Lowenthal ...
    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. ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Shakespeare’s Thought

    Unobserved Details and Unsuspected Depths in Eleven Plays

    by David Lowenthal ...
    Shakespeare’s Thought: Unobserved Details and Unsuspected Depths in Eleven Plays demonstrates that Shakespeare’s plays were conceived and executed as studies of great moral and political issues. After examining the divergent views of critics across the years, this book goes on to analyze eleven of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, observing details and supplying interpretations that indicate the ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Quest for the Unity of Knowledge

    by David Lowenthal ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    Is unity of knowledge possible? Is it desirable? Two rival visions clash. One seeks a single way of explaining everything known and knowable about ourselves and the universe. The other champions diverse modes of understanding served by disparate kinds of evidence. Contrary views pit science against the arts and humanities. Scientists generally laud and seek convergence. Artists and humanists ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Nature of Cultural Heritage, and the Culture of Natural Heritage

    Edited by David Lowenthal, Kenneth Olwig ...
    The idea that the heritage of nature is fundamentally cultural is provocative to many, but it is becoming increasingly accepted in the context of heritage preservation. It is argued here that a person’s perspective on natural vs. cultural heritage as a contested patrimony is, to some extent, governed by one’s intellectual and geographical position. In discourses influenced by the natural sciences ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Landscape Meanings and Values

    Edited by Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell, David Lowenthal ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1986, Landscape Meanings and Values presents a major contribution to the debate concerning the relationship between theory and practice in landscape analysis and planning. It brings together a number of the most eminent researchers, commentators and practitioners from both the United States of America and Britain to pursue the fundamental meanings and values in landscape. The ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • To Pass On a Good Earth

    The Life and Work of Carl O. Sauer

    by Michael Williams, Eleanore Williams ...
    To Pass On a Good Earth is the candid and compelling new biography of one of the twentieth century’s most distinctive and influential scholars. The legendary "Great God beyond the Sierras," Carl Ortwin Sauer is America’s most famed geographer, an inspiration to both academics and poets, yet no book-length biography of him has existed until now.This Missouri-born son of German immigrants ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Slave State

    Rereading Orwell's 1984

    by David Lowenthal, Ph.D ...
    Series series Dissident American Thought Today Series
    David Lowenthal transposes present society onto that in the novel, 1984, and illustrates “how the quest for a perfect society led instead to the worst––in the course of revolting against which the true ends of life are established.” It is more than suspicion: the year 2021 is 1984. What many understand by instinct, Lowenthal here articulates in clear terms using the political prophesy of this no ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • George Perkins Marsh

    Prophet of Conservation

    by David Lowenthal ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh’s career and shows his relevance today, in a book which has its roots in but wholly supersedes Lowenthal’s earlier biography George Perkins Marsh: Versatile Vermonter (1958). Marsh’s ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Politics of the Past

    Edited by David Lowenthal, Peter Gathercole ...
    Series series One World Archaeology
    'History is written by the winners' is the received wisdom. This book explains why historical interpretation has to incorporate perspectives from those other than 'winners', and demonstrates archaeology's crucial role in this wide-ranging approach. The book draws more on Africa, Afro-America, Australasia and Oceania than on Europe, the source of the traditionally dominant perspective in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Mind and Art of Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman

    Texts and Interpretations of Twenty Great Speeches

    by David Lowenthal ...
    By analyzing many of Lincoln's most important speeches, The Mind and Art of Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman shows him to be a profound and systematic thinker who tries to get at the root of issues, not all of them strictly political. Lowenthal emphasizes Lincoln's manner of writing, which enables him to conceal his most radical thoughts, and pays special attention to the reasoning and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Souls with Longing

    Representations of Honor and Love in Shakespeare

    by Dustin A. Gish, John Briggs, Leon Craig, Scott Crider, Carson Holloway, David Lowenthal, Glenn Arbery, Carol McNamara, John E. Alvis, George Anastaplo0, Paul Cantor1, Laurence D. Nee2 ...
    The works of William Shakespeare vividly represent for our admiration and study a pageant of souls with longing in whose wake we ceaselessly follow. Through some of his most memorable characters, Shakespeare illuminates the nature and character—as well as consequences—of our distinctively human passions and ambition, in particular our desire for and pursuit of both honor and love. The contributors ... Read more

    $49.39 USD