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What Nostalgia Was
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Thomas Dodman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In What Nostalgia Was, historian Thomas Dodman traces the history of clinical "nostalgia" from when it was first coined in 1688 to describe deadly homesickness
On Nostalgia
Language: en
Pages: 116
Authors: David Berry
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-21 - Publisher: Coach House Books

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From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it. From movies to politics, social media posts to the targeted ads between th
The Future of Nostalgia
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Svetlana Boym
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-05 - Publisher: Basic Books

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Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know w
The Nostalgia Factory
Language: en
Pages: 134
Authors: Douwe Draaisma
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-15 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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“An entertaining discussion” of the role memory plays in our lives as we age, including an interview with Oliver Sacks (Times Higher Education Supplement).
Consumed Nostalgia
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Gary Cross
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-08 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. For many of us, modern memory is shaped less by a longing for the social customs and practices of the past or for family hei