TY - BOOK ID - 134477998 TI - Yesterday : a new history of nostalgia PY - 2023 SN - 9780674251755 PB - Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nostalgia KW - Collective memory KW - Progress KW - Popular culture KW - History KW - Political aspects KW - Nostalgie KW - History. KW - Histoire. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134477998 AB - Nostalgia, supposedly, is the sphere of the sentimentalist. But also, and most definitely, it is a force in the creation of the present and future and thus worth careful thought. Yesterday argues that nostalgia's critics defend an idea of progress as naìˆve as the longing they denounce, while conflating nostalgia itself with historical whitewashing. -- ER -