What Nostalgia Was : War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion /

Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly. What Nostalgia Was une...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dodman, Thomas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]
Colección:Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
Temas:
Nostalgia > History.
Nostalgia > France > History > 18th century.
Nostalgia > France > History > 19th century.
HISTORY / General.
Algeria.
Capitalist epoch.
Emotion.
Empire.
France.
Medicine.
Nostalgia.
Space.
Time.
War.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Nostalgia as a Historical Problem
  • Chapter 1. Nostalgia in 1688
  • Chapter 2. The Reasons of a Passion
  • Chapter 3. The Lost Pays of the Patrie
  • Chapter 4. Mothers and Sons in the Time of Napoleonic War
  • Chapter 5. Golden Age
  • Chapter 6. Nostalgia in the Tropics
  • Chapter 7. Ubi bene, ibi patria: Nostalgia Fin de Siècle
  • Afterword: Nostalgia in History
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Archival Sources
  • Index

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