Research Catalog

Title

Cryptohistories / edited by Alicja Bemben, Rafał Borysławski, Justyna Jajszczok and Jakub Gajda.

Publication

• Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
• ©2015

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Additional Authors

• Bemben, Alicja
• Borysławski, Rafał
• Jajszczok, Justyna
• Gajda, Jakub

Description

ix, 165 pages; 22 cm

Summary

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 construct and as manipulation. Equally important for all the contributors brought together in this book is the mechanics of the rise, popularity and apparent necessity of such narrative strategies.

Subject

• History > Errors, inventions, etc
• History > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFD 15-3190

ISBN

• 1443872296
• 9781443872294

OCLC

900828221

Title

Cryptohistories / edited by Alicja Bemben, Rafał Borysławski, Justyna Jajszczok and Jakub Gajda.

Publisher

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bemben, Alicja, editor.

Borysławski, Rafał, editor.

Jajszczok, Justyna, editor.

Gajda, Jakub, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 15-3190