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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.

Book details

• Full title: The Future of the Past
• Author: Alexander Stille
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9780312420949
• ISBN: 0312420943
• ID: 11368399
• Publisher: Picador
• Weight: 499 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: April 2003

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