Future of the Past by Alexander Stille
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.
Alexander Stille is the author of The Future of the Past, Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic, and Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780374159771 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374159777 |
| Title | Future of the Past |
| Author | Alexander Stille |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | MacMillan Distribution Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-12-31 |
| Number of pages | 339 |
| Prizes | Winner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2003 |
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