{"product_id":"the-heritage-crusade-and-the-spoils-of-history-0521635624","title":"The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0521635624\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lowenthal, David\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeritage, while it often constitutes and defines the most positive aspects of culture, is a malleable body of historical text subject to interpretation and easily twisted into myth. When it is appealed to on a national or ethnic level in reactions against racial, religious, or economic oppression, the result is often highly-charged political contention or conflict. The extraordinary theme of this unique book is how the rise of a manifold, crusade-like obsession with tradition and inheritance--both physical and cultural--can lead to either good or evil. In a balanced account of the pros and cons of the rhetoric and spoils of heritage--on the one hand cultural identity and unity, on the other, potential holy war--David Lowenthal discusses the myriad uses and abuses of historical appropriation and offers a rare and accessible account of a concept at once familiar and fraught with complexity. David Lowenthal is Emeritus Professor of Geography at University College London, and the author of the bestselling The Past is a Foreign Country (Cambridge, 1985)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51893779628320,"sku":"NEW0521635624","price":43.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/717ksBFL1eL.jpg?v=1782008089","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-heritage-crusade-and-the-spoils-of-history-0521635624","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}