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Title:
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All about history, 93 - Victorian occult
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Material Type:
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Serial check-in : printed text
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Published date :
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00/00/0000
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Interest level:
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Class number:
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909 (World history)
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Descriptors:
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; Grades 5-12
; World history
; Occultism
; Slavery
; Pirates
; Cold War (1945-1989)
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Abstract:
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As enlightenment thinking grew in popularity and science revealed new secrets about the world in the 19th century, a new wave of supernatural fervour swept the Victorian world. In All About History 93 we explore the era’s rise of spiritualism and interest in the macabre.
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Contents note:
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Banned: The media THEY didn’t want you to see; Atomic Spies: The Cold War race for nuclear secrets; From Equals to Enslaved: How West Africa’s power and wealth was stolen; Martyr to Maths: The life of Greek philosophy queen, Hypatia; The Pirate Republic: How an outlaw island was formed; All about Joseon Dynasty Korea ; What if the Communists had lost the Chinese Civil War?; The evolution of the art of advertising
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