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Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465007080ISBN-10:465007082UPC:9780465007080Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Social History, Modern, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:20th Century, Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:9.10 x 5.90 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCQQS7G1JY
The Future of Nostalgia
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 what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors believed that opium, leeches, and a trek through the Alps would cure nostalgia. In 1733 a Russian commander, disgusted with the debilitating homesickness rampant among his...
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465007080ISBN-10:465007082UPC:9780465007080Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Social History, Modern, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:20th Century, Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:9.10 x 5.90 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCQQS7G1JY
Svetlana Boym was a writer and Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard. She is the author of Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia and Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet, as well as of short stories, plays, and a novel.
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