Shadow Pasts : 'Amateur Historians' and History's Mysteries

ISBN-13: 9780582505971 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 208 str.

Prof William D. Rubinstein

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1.    Introduction: The ‘Amateur Historian’ and the Study of History

2.    The Assassination of President Kennedy

3.    The ‘Jack the Ripper’ Murders

4.    The Shakespeare Authorship Question

5.    Richard III and the Princes in the Tower

6.    Did Jesus Marry and Survive the Crucifixion?

7.    The Mysteries of Rudolf Hess

8.    Ancient Mysteries: The Great Pyramid and the Sphinx

O autorze

Rubinstein, William D.