9780520274532-0520274539-Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America

Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America

ISBN-13: 9780520274532
ISBN-10: 0520274539
Edition: First Edition
Author: Dr. Molly McGarry
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780520274532
ISBN-10: 0520274539
Edition: First Edition
Author: Dr. Molly McGarry
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America (ISBN-13: 9780520274532 and ISBN-10: 0520274539), written by authors Dr. Molly McGarry, was published by University of California Press in 2012. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other United States History (Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $5.56.

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Ghosts of Futures Past guides readers through the uncanny world of nineteenth-century American spiritualism. More than an occult parlor game, this was a new religion, which channeled the voices of the dead, linked present with past, and conjured new worldly and otherworldly futures. Tracing the persistence of magic in an emergent culture of secularism, Molly McGarry brings a once marginalized practice to the center of American cultural history. Spiritualism provided an alchemical combination of science and magic that called into question the very categories of male and female, material and immaterial, self and other, living and dead. Dissolving the boundaries between them opened Spiritualist practitioners to other voices and, in turn, allowed them to imagine new social worlds and forge diverse political affinities.
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