The Future of the Past

Informationen zum Autor Alexander Stille Klappentext 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 details

• Authors: Alexander Stille
• Publisher: Macmillan USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2003
• EAN: 9780312420949
• ISBN: 978-0-312-42094-9
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book