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Conspiracy Theories In American History
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Author : Peter Knight
language : en
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2003
Conspiracy Theories In American History written by Peter Knight and has been published by ABC-CLIO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
The first comprehensive history of conspiracies and conspiracy theories in the United States.
Conspiracies And Conspiracy Theories In American History 2 Volumes
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Author : Christopher R. Fee
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2019-05-24
Conspiracies And Conspiracy Theories In American History 2 Volumes written by Christopher R. Fee and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-24 with History categories.
This up-to-date introduction to the complex world of conspiracies and conspiracy theories provides insight into why millions of people are so ready to believe the worst about our political, legal, religious, and financial institutions. Unsupported theories provide simple explanations for catastrophes that are otherwise difficult to understand, from the U.S. Civil War to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Ideas about shadowy networks that operate behind a cloak of secrecy, including real organizations like the CIA and the Mafia and imagined ones like the Illuminati, additionally provide a way for people to criticize prevailing political and economic arrangements, while for society's disadvantaged and forgotten groups, conspiracy theories make their suffering and alienation comprehensible and provide a focal point for their economic or political frustrations. These volumes detail the highly controversial and influential phenomena of conspiracies and conspiracy theories in American society. Through interpretive essays and factual accounts of various people, organizations, and ideas, the reader will gain a much greater appreciation for a set of beliefs about political scheming, covert intelligence gathering, and criminal rings that has held its grip on the minds of millions of American citizens and encouraged them to believe that the conspiracies may run deeper, and with a global reach.
Conspiracy Theories In American History 2 Volumes
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Author : Peter Knight
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2003-12-11
Conspiracy Theories In American History 2 Volumes written by Peter Knight and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-11 with History categories.
The first comprehensive history of conspiracies and conspiracy theories in the United States. Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive, research-based, scholarly study of the pervasiveness of our deeply ingrained culture of conspiracy. From the Puritan witch trials to the Masons, from the Red Scare to Watergate, Whitewater, and the War on Terror, this encyclopedia covers conspiracy theories across the breadth of U.S. history, examining the individuals, organizations, and ideas behind them. Its over 300 alphabetical entries cover both the documented records of actual conspiracies and the cultural and political significance of specific conspiracy speculations. Neither promoting nor dismissing any theory, the entries move beyond the usual biased rhetoric to provide a clear-sighted, dispassionate look at each conspiracy (real or imagined). Readers will come to understand the political and social contexts in which these theories arose, the mindsets and motivations of the people promoting them, the real impact of society's reactions to conspiracy fears, warranted or not, and the verdict (when verifiable) that history has passed on each case.
Conspiracies And Conspiracy Theories In American History
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Author : Christopher R. Fee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Conspiracies And Conspiracy Theories In American History written by Christopher R. Fee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Conspiracy theories categories.
Conspiracies And Conspiracy Theories In American History 2 Volumes
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Author : Christopher R. Fee
language : en
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2019-05-24
Conspiracies And Conspiracy Theories In American History 2 Volumes written by Christopher R. Fee and has been published by ABC-CLIO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-24 with History categories.
Unsupported theories provide simple explanations for catastrophes that are otherwise difficult to understand, from the U.S. Civil War to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Ideas about shadowy networks that operate behind a cloak of secrecy, including real organizations like the CIA and the Mafia and imagined ones like the Illuminati, additionally provide a way for people to criticize prevailing political and economic arrangements, while for society's disadvantaged and forgotten groups, conspiracy theories make their suffering and alienation comprehensible and provide a focal point for their economic or political frustrations. These volumes detail the highly controversial and influential phenomena of conspiracies and conspiracy theories in American society. Through interpretive essays and factual accounts of various people, organizations, and ideas, the reader will gain a much greater appreciation for a set of beliefs about political scheming, covert intelligence gathering, and criminal rings that has held its grip on the minds of millions of American citizens and encouraged them to believe that the conspiracies may run deeper, and with a global reach.
Conspiracy Theories In American History
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Author : Peter Knight
language : en
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2003
Conspiracy Theories In American History written by Peter Knight and has been published by ABC-CLIO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
The first comprehensive history of conspiracies and conspiracy theories in the United States.
Conspiracy Theories In American History
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Author : Peter Knight
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Conspiracy Theories In American History written by Peter Knight and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Conspiracy theories categories.
The first comprehensive history of conspiracies and conspiracy theories in the United States. A reference guide to conspiracy theory presents over 300 entries describing events and theories, analyzing the historical, intellectual, and political context of each, and offering evidence to support or refute each one.
Conspiracy Theory In America
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Author : Lance deHaven-Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2013-04-15
Conspiracy Theory In America written by Lance deHaven-Smith and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with Political Science categories.
Asserts that the Founders' hard-nosed realism about the likelihood of elite political misconduct—articulated in the Declaration of Independence—has been replaced by today's blanket condemnation of conspiracy beliefs as ludicrous by definition.
American Conspiracy Theories
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Author : Joseph E. Uscinski
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014
American Conspiracy Theories written by Joseph E. Uscinski and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
Conspiracies theories are some of the most striking features in the American political landscape: the Kennedy assassination, aliens at Roswell, subversion by Masons, Jews, Catholics, or communists, and modern movements like Birtherism and Trutherism. But what do we really know about conspiracy theories? Do they share general causes? Are they becoming more common? More dangerous? Who is targeted and why? Who are the conspiracy theorists? How has technology affected conspiracy theorising? This book offers the first century-long view of these issues.
Conspiracies Of Conspiracies
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Author : Thomas Milan Konda
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-03-15
Conspiracies Of Conspiracies written by Thomas Milan Konda and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-15 with History categories.
It’s tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion—and the delusional psychologies that fuel them—have been a constant presence in American life for nearly as long as there’s been an America. In this sweeping book, Thomas Milan Konda traces the country’s obsession with conspiratorial thought from the early days of the republic to our own anxious moment. Conspiracies of Conspiracies details centuries of sinister speculations—from antisemitism and anti-Catholicism to UFOs and reptilian humanoids—and their often incendiary outcomes. Rather than simply rehashing the surface eccentricities of such theories, Konda draws from his unprecedented assemblage of conspiratorial writing to crack open the mindsets that lead people toward these self-sealing worlds of denial. What is distinctively American about these theories, he argues, is not simply our country’s homegrown obsession with them but their ongoing prevalence and virulence. Konda proves that conspiracy theories are no harmless sideshow. They are instead the dark and secret heart of American political history—one that is poisoning the bloodstream of an increasingly sick body politic.