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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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.