Cryptohistories /

Cryptohistories is a collection of essays which provides a meeting ground for historians and cultural scholars analysing discussions of cryptic discourses in history and in historical narratives with roots in the mysterious. The focus here is on history as a subjective narrative, as a conscious cons...

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Other Authors: Bemben, Alicja (Editor), Borysławski, Rafał (Editor), Jajszczok, Justyna (Editor), Gajda, Jakub (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Almost-histories, or why some tales of the past do not become histories / Tomasz Wislicz
  • Kings don't die in traffic accidents / Marcin Sarnek
  • The lies that tells a truth, the truth that lies / Alicja Bemben
  • Event as danger, event as hope: Alain Badiou's complicated marriage with history / Michał Kisiel
  • Cryptic origins: parasites and historical controversies / Justyna Jajszczok
  • White rosebud for girlhood: Victorian floriography / Nina Augustynowicz
  • Eonist spies: cross-dressing and the idea of sartorial camouflage / Anna Malinowska
  • Shadows in the jungle: America and the Vietnam War MIA's / Aleksandra Musiał
  • The manipulation of photographs by Dimităr Cavra and its influence on the creation of the myth of the Batak Massacre (1876) in Bulgarian historiography / Krzysztof Popek
  • The riddle of Thule: in search of the crypto-history of a racially pure white utopia / J. Eric Starnes
  • Adolf Hitler in Liverpool and the Girl in the Polka-dot Dress in Los Angeles: Cryptohistories according to Beryl Bainbridge / Anna Olkiewicz-Mantilla.