Conspiracies of conspiracies : how delusions have overrun America
Record details
- ISBN: 022658576X
- ISBN: 9780226585765
- ISBN: 022658593X
- ISBN: 9780226585932
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (442 pages)
remote - Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: conspiracy theories and conspiracism -- The invention of conspiracy theory: the French Revolution and the Bavarian Illuminati -- Conspiracism takes shape in the United States -- Preconditions for modern conspiracism: Jewish assimilation, premillennialism, and Aryan occultism -- The international Jewish conspiracy and the secret government -- The emergence of the hidden hand -- The rise and fall of the hidden hand -- From neo-Nazi to white supremacist conspiracism -- The emergence of the new world order -- The conspiracy of personal destruction -- The planners take over -- Pan-ideological conspiracy theories: denialism and cover-up -- Conspiracism proliferates: some anomalies -- Christian identity and the white race -- The government conspiracy against "us" -- Conspiracism rebounds: truthers, birthers, and the new militias -- Conspiracism enters the mainstream -- The attack on science -- Democracy and civil society. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 22, 2019). |
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