Lexington Books
Pages: 192
Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-1-4985-0083-8 • Hardback • December 2014 • $102.00 • (£78.00)
978-1-4985-0084-5 • eBook • December 2014 • $96.50 • (£74.00)
Eugen O. Chirovici holds honorary PhDs in economics, communication, and history and is a member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences.
ContentsArgument- The Number of the Beast: Nero Did Not Play the Lyre While Rome Burned
- The Bloody Road to Redemption: The Paupers’ Crusade
- Bankruptcy and the Stake: The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ
- Five Centuries of Rumors: The Witch Hunts
- Violence and Fear: The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
- A Rumor Brings a Kingdom to Ruin: The Mississippi Bubble
- When Diamonds Are a Girl’s Worst Enemy: The Affair of the Necklace
- Too Loud To Be True: The California Gold Rush
- Jack the Ripper: A Real Person or Just a Bunch of Rumors?
- Cannons and Rumors: The Curious Case of Noel Pemberton Billing
- Hearing is not Believing: The Night When ‘They’ Attacked America
- When Death of a Democracy is Greeted with Applause: The Reichstag Fire
13. The Birth of a Mythology: The Roswell Incident 14. The Dictator Who Didn’t Have Gold Taps: The End of Communism in Eastern Europe 15. Murderous Rumors: The Rwanda Genocide 16. A New Witch Hunt: The Satanic Ritual Abuse AfterwordBibliography
Rumors That Changed the World: A History of Violence and Discrimination is an interesting, useful and well-structured book that aims to identify the way in which rumors, as a psycho-social phenomenon, have played a part in triggering and shaping various historical events.
— Andrei Kozma, Romanian Academy of Science