Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia

by Tobias Becker

Book Overview

A sweeping reassessment of our longing for the past, from the rise of "retro" to the rhetoric of Brexit and Trump.

Nostalgia has a bad reputation. Its critics dismiss it as mere sentimentality or, worse, a dangerous yearning for an imagined age of purity. And nostalgia is routinely blamed for trivializing the past and obscuring its ugly sides. In Yesterday, Tobias Becker offers a more nuanced and sympathetic view. Surveying...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067425175X
• ISBN13: 9780674251755
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"