{"product_id":"the-heritage-crusade-and-the-spoils-of-history","title":"The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History","description":"\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":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964311892021,"sku":"ByrdShop_0521635624","price":28.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780521635622.jpg?v=1770456594","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-heritage-crusade-and-the-spoils-of-history","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}