Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge Kristin Phillips Matt Kaplan considers how things

Matt Kaplan considers how things that were once the stuff of legends could one day become reality” (The Atlantic) in this fun scientific inquiry into the mystical places and magical objects of ancient and contemporary lore—from the fountain of youth

makes some marginal annotations to the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola that are later interpreted by Lenin as an instruction manual to carry out the Russian Revolution of 1917

and rise from the dead

Persephone’s former boyfriend is now a nurse at the cancer center where Annie is being treated

Date: 6/4/2016

Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge Kristin Phillips Matt Kaplan considers how thingsAuthor Contributor(s): Landsberg, Alison Publisher: Columbia University Press Date: 06 02 2015 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW