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David Lowenthal is professor emeritus of geography at University College London. His books include The Past Is a Foreign Country, West Indian Societies, and The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History.]]>

Note biographique

David Lowenthal is professor emeritus of geography at University College London. His books include The Past Is a Foreign Country, West Indian Societies, and The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History.

Table des matières

List of Illustrations

Foreword by William Cronon

Preface

Woodstock and the First Watershed

Burlington: Blunders and Bereavements

Puritans, Vikings, Goths

Congress and the Smithsonian

American History from the Ground Up

Constantinople and the Desert

Missionary Miseries, Mediterranean Jaunts

Debts and Dromedaries

Vermont Public Servant

The English Language

Risorgimento and Civil War

Turin and the Alps

Man and Nature: The Making

Man and Nature: The Meaning

Florence and Unfinished Italy

Last Watersheds: Rome, Cravairola, Vallombrosa

Retrospect: Forming a Life

Prospect: Reforming Nature

Abbreviations in Notes and bibliography

Notes

Bibliography

Illustration credits

Index

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