Invented Knowledge
False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 2005
272 pages
978-1-86189-674-2 (ISBN)
Description
Invented Knowledge is an exploration of the murky world of fake science and pseudo-history: fields that generally rely on lost continents, ancient super-civilizations, conspiratorial cover-ups, preternaturally daring and undocumented explorations or discoveries, and even vast Satan-inspired plots to offer an alternative version of the past. At once lively and authoritative, Ronald H. Fritze illuminates the phenomenon of false history by telling the story of a select group of pseudo-historical ideas.
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Content
- INVENTED KNOWLEDGE cover
- Imprint page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Atlantis: Mother of Pseudohistory
- 2 Who's on First? The Pseudohistory of the Discovery and Settlement ofAncient America
- 3 Mudpeople, Satan's Spawn and Christian Identity: Racist Cosmogonies and Pseudohistory, Part I
- 4 Mad Scientists, White Devils and the Nation of Islam: Racist Cosmogonies and Pseudohistory, Part II
- 5 Pseudohistoria Epidemica or Pseudohistorians in Collusion
- 6 Professors Gone Wild: The Black Athena Controversy
- References
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
