Shadow Pasts
'Amateur Historians' and History's Mysteries
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Explores the obsession of amateur historians and their conspiracy theories about some of history's most fascinating and enduring mysteries. Explores the 'Modus Operandi' of the amateur historians including their societies, conferences and leading personalities Gives access to a world of passion, obsession and intrigue as fascinating as their objects of fixation Mysteries/theories examined include, the assassination of JFK, identity of Jack The Ripper, Shakespeare authorship, Richard III & the princes in the Tower, Jesus surviving crucifixion, escape of Rudolph Hess, the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx.
For many intelligent people, the stuff of history does not consist the diplomatic, economic or political history that most university historians research and write about, but the famous topics of historys mysteries- who was Jack the Ripper? Was there a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy? Did Richard III murder the Princes in the Tower? What are the mysteries of the ancient Pyramids? Not only have a great many books and articles been written on these and similar topics by so-called amateur historians, but they have generated societies, conferences, newsletters, and television programmes. Many people who are not academic historians take a keen interest in these topics, and have in some cases made themselves real experts on them, with interesting theories of their own. Despite all of this, however, these topics are virtually ignored by academic historians and can be treated with contempt. In Shadow Pasts, William D. Rubinstein a well-known and widely published history professor, examines seven of the most famous and interesting topics which have been discussed, debated, examined, and written about by amateur historians. Each of these mysteries and the theories surrounding them are examined in detail, with Professor Rubinstein presenting his own original and sometimes surprising conclusions about what really happened.
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