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Author : Peter Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Conspiracies
ISBN : LCCN:2003019565
Author : Peter Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Conspiracies
ISBN : UOM:49015002935691
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.
Author : Peter Knight
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002935683
The first comprehensive history of conspiracies and conspiracy theories in the United States.
Author : Peter Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:249871903
Author : Joseph E. Uscinski,Joseph M. Parent
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199351817
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.
Author : Christopher R. Fee,Jeffrey B. Webb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216065203
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.
Author : Christopher R. Fee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Conspiracy theories
ISBN : OCLC:1300462070
Author : Luis Roniger,Leonardo Senkman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000438727
This book is a systematic inquiry of conspiracy theories across Latin America. Conspiracy theories project not only an interpretive logic of reality that leads people to believe in sinister machinations, but also imply a theory of power that requires mobilizing and taking action. Through history, many have fallen for the allure of conspiratorial narratives, even the most unsubstantiated and bizarre. This book traces the main conspiracy theories developing in Latin America since late colonial times and into the present, and identifies the geopolitical, socioeconomic and cultural scenarios of their diffusion and mobilization. Students and scholars of Latin American history and politics, as well as comparatists, will find in this book penetrating analyses of major conspiratorial designs in this multi-state region of the Americas.
Author : Joseph E. Uscinski,Joseph M. Parent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199351800
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.
Author : Christopher R. Fee,Jeffrey B. Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Conspiracy theories
ISBN : 1440858136
"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"--
Author : Donald T. Critchlow,John Korasick,Matthew C. Sherman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253027832
Conspiracy theories have been a part of the American experience since colonial times. There is a rich literature on conspiracies involving, among others, Masons, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, financiers, Communists, and internationalists. Although many conspiracy theories appear irrational, an exaggerated fear of a conspiracy sometimes proves to be well founded. This anthology provides students with documents relating to some of the more important and interesting conspiracy theories in American history and politics, some based on reality, many chiefly on paranoia. It provides a fascinating look at a persistent and at times troubling aspect of democratic society.
Author : Katharina Thalmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429670473
Are conspiracy theories everywhere and is everyone a conspiracy theorist? This ground-breaking study challenges some of the widely shared assessments in the scholarship about a perceived mainstreaming of conspiracy theory. It claims that conspiracy theory underwent a significant shift in status in the mid-20th century and has since then become highly visible as an object of concern in public debates. Providing an in-depth analysis of academic and media discourses, Katharina Thalmann is the first scholar to systematically trace the history and process of the delegitimization of conspiracy theory. By reading a wide range of conspiracist accounts about three central events in American history from the 1950s to 1970s – the Great Red Scare, the Kennedy assassination, and the Watergate scandal – Thalmann shows that a veritable conspiracist subculture emerged in the 1970s as conspiracy theories were pushed out of the legitimate marketplace of ideas and conspiracy theory became a commodity not unlike pornography: alluring in its illegitimacy, commonsensical, and highly profitable. This will be of interest to scholars and researchers interested in American history, culture and subcultures, as well, of course, to those fascinated by conspiracies.
Author : M. Dentith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137363169
Conspiracy theories are a popular topic of conversation in everyday life but are often frowned upon in academic discussions. Looking at the recent spate of philosophical interest in conspiracy theories, The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories looks at whether the assumption that belief in conspiracy theories is typically irrational is well founded
Author : Carole M. Cusack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317113256
Utilizing contemporary scholarship on secularization, individualism, and consumer capitalism, this book explores religious movements founded in the West which are intentionally fictional: Discordianism, the Church of All Worlds, the Church of the SubGenius, and Jediism. Their continued appeal and success, principally in America but gaining wider audience through the 1980s and 1990s, is chiefly as a result of underground publishing and the internet. This book deals with immensely popular subject matter: Jediism developed from George Lucas' Star Wars films; the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, founded by 26-year-old student Bobby Henderson in 2005 as a protest against the teaching of Intelligent Design in schools; Discordianism and the Church of the SubGenius which retain strong followings and participation rates among college students. The Church of All Worlds' focus on Gaia theology and environmental issues makes it a popular focus of attention. The continued success of these groups of Invented Religions provide a unique opportunity to explore the nature of late/post-modern religious forms, including the use of fiction as part of a bricolage for spirituality, identity-formation, and personal orientation.
Author : Kathryn S. Olmsted
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199753956
This timely book links the explosion of conspiracy theories about the U.S. government in recent years to the revelations of real government conspiracies. It traces anti-government theories from the birth of the modern state in World War I to the current war on terror.