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Yesterday : A New History of Nostalgia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Becker, Tobias.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nostalgia--History.
- Nostalgia.
- Nostalgia--Political aspects.
- Collective memory.
- Progress.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Nostalgia, supposedly, is the sphere of the sentimentalist. But also, and most definitely, it is a force in the creation of the present and future and thus worth careful thought. Yesterday argues that nostalgia's critics defend an idea of progress as naïve as the longing they denounce, while conflating nostalgia itself with historical whitewashing.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraphs
- Introduction
- 1. Revisiting: The Meanings of Nostalgia
- 2. Regressing: The Politics of Nostalgia
- 3. Reviving: The Past in Popular Culture
- 4. Reliving: The History Boom
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-29474-2
- 0-674-29475-0
- OCLC:
- 1406410408
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