Anglo Nostalgia: The Politics of Emotion in a Fractured West

by Edoardo Campanella and Marta Dassu

Nostalgia has become a major force in global politics. While Donald Trump hopes to "make America great again," Xi Jinping calls for a "great rejuvenation of the Chinese people," and a majority of Russians still mourn the Soviet Union. But it is Brexit, with its idealization of a bygone era of full sovereignty, that epitomizes nostalgic nationalism in its purest form.
Despite its romantic flavor, nostalgia is a malaise--a combination of paranoia...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190068930
• ISBN13: 9780190068936
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.6"