The Future of the Past

Pages, 339. Slight shelf wear to dust-jacket. Appears unread.

From Publisher:

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.

Product Info

ISBN: 0374159777

ISBN-13: 9780374159771

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

Year: 2002

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Seller Info

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Website: https://www.lpbooks.com

Country: United States