books.google.co.uk - In this remarkably wide-ranging book Professor Lowenthal analyses the ever-changing role of the past in shaping our lives. A heritage at once nurturing and burdensome, the past allows us to make sense of the present whilst imposing powerful constraints upon the way that present develops. Some aspects...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Past_is_a_Foreign_Country.html?id=jMqsAQZmv5IC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Past is a Foreign Country