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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert E. Bartholomew, Peter HassallPublish date:2015-10-13Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781633881228ISBN-10:1633881229UPC:9781633881228Book Category:History, Psychology, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Social History, Social Psychology, SociologySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCGN8B0M3V
A Colorful History of Popular Delusions
This eclectic history of unusual crowd behavior describes a rich assortment of mass phenomena ranging from the amusing and quirky to the shocking and deplorable. What do fads, crazes, manias, urban legends, moral panics, riots, stampedes, and other mass expressions of emotion have in common? By creating a typology of such behavior, past and present, the authors show how common extraordinary group...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781633881228ISBN-10:1633881229UPC:9781633881228Book Category:History, Psychology, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Social History, Social Psychology, SociologySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCGN8B0M3V
Robert E. Bartholomew is the author of twelve previous books, most recently Mass Hysteria in Schools (with Robert Rickard), and more than sixty articles in professional journals, including the British Medical Journal and the International Journal of Social Psychiatry. He has been interviewed in the New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and on the History and...
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