- Paperback: 784 pages
- Publisher: Anomalist Books (April 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1933665254
- ISBN-13: 978-1933665252
- Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 21 x 3.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #356,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From fads, crazes, and manias to collective delusions, scares, panics, and mass hysterias, history is replete with examples of remarkable social behavior. Many are fueled by fear and uncertainty; others are driven by hope and expectation. For others still, the causes are more obscure. This massive collection of extraordinary social behaviors spans more than two millennia, and attempts to place many of the episodes within their greater historical and cultural context. Perhaps the most well known example of unusual collective behavior occurred in 1938, when a million or more Americans were frightened or panicked after listening to a realistic radio drama about a Martian invasion of New Jersey, based on an adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel "War of the Worlds." Less known but equally remarkable scares based on Wells' book occurred in Chile in 1944 (when Army units were mobilized), in Ecuador in 1949 (when riots broke out, leaving more than a dozen dead), as well as in Buffalo in 1968, Rhode Island in 1974, and Europe in 1988 and 1998. The modern civilized world is by no means immune to such peculiar episodes. In the late 20th century, scores of people in the U.S. and Europe were wrongly incarcerated following claims of Satanic ritual abuse by authorities untutored in False Memory Syndrome. This episode recalls the European witch terror of the late Middle Ages, when innocent people were tortured and executed for consorting with the Devil based on the flimsiest of evidence. OUTBREAK! THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRAORDINARY SOCIAL BEHAVIOR is an authoritative reference on a broad range of topics: collective behavior, deviance, social and perceptual psychology, sociology, history, folklore, religious studies, political science, social anthropology, gender studies, critical thinking, and mental health. Never before have so many sources been brought together on the mesmerizing topic of collective behavior.
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Excellent, insightful, well-researched, Mar 7 2011
By reader - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Outbreak! the Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior (Paperback)
The authors have created a reference resource for the ages in this volume. it is an excellent, insightful, well-researched, easy-to-read work that will be a cornerstone of behavior contagion texts for years to come.
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Wildly Entertaining, Absurdly ambitious, astutely critical, deceivingly academic, Jan 27 2010
By Ricahrd A. Salzer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Outbreak! the Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior (Paperback)
Hilary Evans, a british author has written dozensof books on subjects ranging from flying saucers
to private life. Perhaps by default, historians
have traditionally sought to illuminate the past
by focusing on docutments and sources that read-
ily yield to rational - and often political in
interpretation. This tome is one of them.
Outbreak!, isn't likely to capture the attention
of many of my fellow Revisionists, but it should.
This book is of a parallel to 'Samuel Crowell's
(not his real name) 'The gas chamber of Sherlock
Holmes'; "[P]oison gas(es) are well suited to the
paronoid and hysterical reations, because by de-
finition (the) substances tend toward the impalpable.'
The extraordinary mind set that would believe that
the NUTZIs actually had homocidal 'gas chambers' would
fit very well into the paranoid 'the sky is fallin',
we're under the attack of Islamo-fascist extremists
today, so we have to mortgage our grandchildren's
futures for 'spreading demo(n)ocracy' and "freedoms"
in hostile arab countries, when the pissed off A-rabs
are just mad 'cause we're on their land! If we get
out of the mideast, they'll leave us alone. What's
described in the Outbreak!, book is along the same
lines. Paranoia, wether of the far-left or far-right
sucks. The far political middle is the best solution
v. the New World Odor and this book is a step in de-
scribing that mindset. Pick Up On It! - R.A.S, HRL
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