| The Future of the Past Contributor(s): Stille, Alexander (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312420943 ISBN-13: 9780312420949 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2003 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - History | Asia - China |
| Dewey: 303.4 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.10 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Secular |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Stille, Alexander: - Alexander Stille is the author of Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic, Benevolence and Betrayal, and The Future of the Past. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times. |
