Alastair Bonnett is Professor of Social Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University, UK. His other books include,
The Idea of the West: Culture, Politics and History, White Identities: International and Historical Perspectives, Anti-racism and Radicalism, Anti-racism and Representation. Ambitious and wide-ranging & [A] scholarly and stimulating work, which makes a valuable and much-needed contribution to the scholarship on nostalgia, modernity and left politics. - Sarah Edwards,Global Discourse
[My] academic interests have been stimulated and my learning enhanced through the reading of this book. I highly recommendLeft in the Pastto anyone interested in exploring the history of radicalism and/or the politics of nostalgia. - Michael Richardson,Global Discourse
IntroductionThe Dilemmas of Radical Nostalgia Acknowledging Nostalgia: Four Provocations Six Windows onto Radical NostalgiaPart OneChapter One: Nostalgia and the Left: Denial, Danger and Doubt Introduction Nostalgia as the Modern Dilemma The ruthless criticism of all that exists' Radical Nostalgia We have lost something': The End of Utopia Nostalgia's Uncertain Return ConclusionChapter Two: Nostalgia in and against English Socialist History, 1775-1894 Introduction The Politics of Loss in English Socialist History From Poorman's Advocate to Proletarian: Thomas Spence and Radical Tradition William Morris: Nostalgia in an Age of Progress Robert Blatchford: The New Life and Old Traditions of Socialist Fellowship ConclusionPart TwoChapter Three: Worlds We Have Lost: Nostalgia in Anti-Colonialism and Postcolonialism Introduction Anti-Colonial Nostalgia: Roots Against Empire Postcolonial Nostalgias: Yearning for Resistance ConclusionChapter Four: The Melancholia of Cosmopolis Introduction Cosmopolitan Attachments Renewing resistal“'
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