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Author : Richard Adams Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Impostors and imposture
ISBN : UCLA:L0058371600
Author : Richard Adams Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:774995
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Impostors and imposture
ISBN : OCLC:12845265
Author : Richard Adams Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : OCLC:927056834
Author : Roland Wenzlhuemer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350106024
The field of Global History has experienced an unprecedented boom in the last two decades and carved itself deeply into the practice of historical research. Despite this, its conceptual foundations have rarely been explored. This introduction to what Global History is brings together theory and practice with 6 key concepts, delivered through 6 accessible case studies. Re-evaluating the central concerns and key approaches in the field, it offers an up-to-date discussion of the foundations of Global History, its guiding questions, and principal methods 'at work'. Doing Global History offers students valuable insights into the ways general concepts can be used and applied when doing historical research. The 6 concepts- connections, actors, structures, space, time and transit- and their accompanying examples will not only help readers to get a solid grasp of what global history means, but will stimulate further engagement in the field. Wenzlhuemer successfully shows that global history is best considered as a perspective, not a theory or paradigm, and guides the reader through ways it can be used in practice to draw new and exciting conclusions. Tailored for classroom and student use, this book will be invaluable to advanced undergraduates and postgraduates of Global History.
Author : Richard Adams LOCKE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018262486
Author : Robert Bartholomew,Hilary Evans
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752494708
Examining the ability of the media to whip up a panic and our tendency to fall victim to mass delusion and hysteria, this title discusses America's "kissing bug" scare of 1899; Seattle's atomic fallout fiasco of 1954; the phantom slasher of Taipei in 1956; Belgium's recent Coca-Cola poisoning scare and the "mad gasser" of Mattoon, and more.
Author : John Frederick William Herschel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024727458
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000136659
Author : Richard Adams Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Moon
ISBN : OCLC:688167450
Author : Hilary Evans,Robert E. Bartholomew
Publisher : Anomalist Books, LLC
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781933665252
From fads, crazes, and manias to collective delusions, scares, panics, and mass hysterias, history is replete with examples of remarkable social behavior. Many are fueled by fear and uncertainty; others are driven by hope and expectation. For others still, the causes are more obscure. This massive collection of extraordinary social behaviors spans more than two millennia, and attempts to place many of the episodes within their greater historical and cultural context. Perhaps the most well known example of unusual collective behavior occurred in 1938, when a million or more Americans were frightened or panicked after listening to a realistic radio drama about a Martian invasion of New Jersey, based on an adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel "War of the Worlds." Less known but equally remarkable scares based on Wells' book occurred in Chile in 1944 (when Army units were mobilized), in Ecuador in 1949 (when riots broke out, leaving more than a dozen dead), as well as in Buffalo in 1968, Rhode Island in 1974, and Europe in 1988 and 1998. The modern civilized world is by no means immune to such peculiar episodes. In the late 20th century, scores of people in the U.S. and Europe were wrongly incarcerated following claims of Satanic ritual abuse by authorities untutored in False Memory Syndrome. This episode recalls the European witch terror of the late Middle Ages, when innocent people were tortured and executed for consorting with the Devil based on the flimsiest of evidence. OUTBREAK! THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRAORDINARY SOCIAL BEHAVIOR is an authoritative reference on a broad range of topics: collective behavior, deviance, social and perceptual psychology, sociology, history, folklore, religious studies, political science, social anthropology, gender studies, critical thinking, and mental health. Never before have so many sources been brought together on the mesmerizing topic of collective behavior.
Author : David Seed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000899108
This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction. Taking Frankenstein as its formative work, it assembles stories and excerpts from narratives exploring the complex impact of new technologies like the telegraph and later the cinema, or new scientific practices like mesmerism (hypnotism) and microscopy. The selected authors range from those famous within the realist tradition like George Eliot and Mark Twain to scientists like the physician Silas Weir Mitchell and the inventor Thomas Edison. They repeatedly destabilize their narratives so that some come to resemble scientific records and frequently leave their endings unresolved, encouraging the reader to speculate about their subjects, which include extensions to the senses, new inventions, and challenges to individual autonomy. Many focus on experiments but might combine scientific enquiry with the supernatural, producing hybrid narratives as a result which are difficult to classify.
Author : Steven Ruskin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351925150
In 1833 John Herschel sailed from London to Cape Town, southern Africa, to undertake (at his own expense) an astronomical exploration of the southern heavens, as well as a terrestrial exploration of the area around Cape Town. After his return to England in 1838, and as a result of his voyage, he was highly esteemed and became Britain's most recognized man of science. In 1847 his southern hemisphere astronomical observations were published as the Cape Results. The main argument of Ruskin's book is that Herschel's voyage and the publication of the Cape Results, in addition to their contemporary scientific importance, were also significant for nineteenth-century culture and politics. In this book it is demonstrated that the reason for Herschel's widespread cultural renown was the popular notion that his voyage to the Cape was a project aligned with the imperial ambitions of the British government. By leaving England for one of its colonies, and pursuing there a significant scientific project, Herschel was seen in the same light as other British men of science (like James Cook and Richard Lander) who had also undertaken voyages of exploration and discovery at the behest of their nation. It is then demonstrated that the production of the Cape Results, in part because of Herschel's status as Britain's scientific figurehead, was a significant political event. Herschel's decision to journey to the Cape for the purpose of surveying the southern heavens was of great significance to almost all of Britain and much of the continent. It is the purpose of this book to make a case for the scientific, cultural, and political significance of Herschel's Cape voyage and astronomical observations, as a means of demonstrating the relationship of scientific practice to broader aspects of imperial culture and politics in the nineteenth century.
Author : Augustus De Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Circle-squaring
ISBN : HARVARD:32044089533756
Author : Richard Adams Locke
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382322779
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.