Description: What Nostalgia Was : War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion, Hardcover by Dodman, Thomas, ISBN 022649280X, ISBN-13 9780226492803, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK 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 until the late nineteenth century, when it morphed into the benign yearning for a lost past we are all familiar with today. Dodman explores how people, both doctors and sufferers, understood nostalgia in late seventeenth-century Swiss cantons (where the first cases were reported) to the Napoleonic wars and to the French colonization of North Africa in the latter 1800s. A work of transnational scope over the longue durée, th is an intellectual biography of a ?transient mental illness” that was successively reframed according to prevailing notions of medicine, romanticism, and climatic and racial determinism. At the same time, Dodman adopts an ethnographic sensitivity to understand the everyday experience of living with nostalgia. In so doing, he explains why nostalgia was such a compelling diagnosis for war neuroses and generalized socioemotional disembeddedness at the dawn of the capitalist era and how it can be understood as a powerful bellwether of the psychological effects of living in the modern age.
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Book Title: What Nostalgia Was : War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotio
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion
Publisher: T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: History
Item Height: 239 mm
Item Weight: 498 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Thomas Dodman
Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
Item Width: 165 mm
Format: Hardcover
