The Resource Ghostland : an American history in haunted places, Colin Dickey
Ghostland : an American history in haunted places, Colin Dickey
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The item Ghostland : an American history in haunted places, Colin Dickey represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
- Dickey, piqued by a house hunt in Los Angeles that revealed derelict foreclosures and "zombie houses", embarks on a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places. With boundless curiosity, Dickey conjures the dead by focusing on questions of the living -- how do we deal with stories about ghosts, and how do we inhabit and move through spaces that have been deemed haunted? Paying attention not only to the true facts behind a ghost story, but also to the ways in which changes are made to those facts and why, Dickey paints a version of American history left out of the textbooks, one of things left undone and crimes left unsolved
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 320 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
-
- Introduction: Anatomy of a haunting (New York, NY)
- The secret staircase (Salem, MA)
- Shifting ground (St. Francisville, LA)
- The endless house (San Jose, CA)
- The rathole revelation (Georgetown, NY, and Bull Valley, IL)
- The family that would not live (St. Louis, MO)
- A devilish place (Richmond, VA)
- Baby (Reno, NV)
- Passing through (Los Angeles, CA)
- Melancholy contemplation (Moundsville, WV)
- The stain (Danvers, MA, and Athens, OH)
- Awaiting the devil's coming (Charleston, SC, and Douglas County, KS)
- Our illustrious dead (Shiloh, TN)
- The wind through Cathedral Park (Portland, OR)
- The wet grave (New Orleans, LA)
- Among the ruins (Detroit, MI)
- Hillsdale, USA
- Epilogue: Ghosts of a new machine (Allendale, CA)
- Isbn
- 9781101980194
- Label
- Ghostland : an American history in haunted places
- Title
- Ghostland
- Title remainder
- an American history in haunted places
- Statement of responsibility
- Colin Dickey
- Subject
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- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Supernatural
- Ghosts
- HISTORY -- United States
- HISTORY -- United States -- Gen
- HISTORY / United States / General
- Haunted houses -- United States
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Supernatural
- Haunted places -- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest | General
- TRAVEL / Special Interest / General
- United States
- Haunted places
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Supernatural
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Dickey, piqued by a house hunt in Los Angeles that revealed derelict foreclosures and "zombie houses", embarks on a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places. With boundless curiosity, Dickey conjures the dead by focusing on questions of the living -- how do we deal with stories about ghosts, and how do we inhabit and move through spaces that have been deemed haunted? Paying attention not only to the true facts behind a ghost story, but also to the ways in which changes are made to those facts and why, Dickey paints a version of American history left out of the textbooks, one of things left undone and crimes left unsolved
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dickey, Colin
- Dewey number
- 133.10973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BF1472.U6
- LC item number
- D53 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Haunted places
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
- TRAVEL
- HISTORY
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
- HISTORY
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Haunted places
- United States
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Supernatural
- TRAVEL / Special Interest / General
- HISTORY / United States / General
- Ghosts
- Haunted houses
- Label
- Ghostland : an American history in haunted places, Colin Dickey
- Note
- Includes index
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-308) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Anatomy of a haunting (New York, NY) -- The secret staircase (Salem, MA) -- Shifting ground (St. Francisville, LA) -- The endless house (San Jose, CA) -- The rathole revelation (Georgetown, NY, and Bull Valley, IL) -- The family that would not live (St. Louis, MO) -- A devilish place (Richmond, VA) -- Baby (Reno, NV) -- Passing through (Los Angeles, CA) -- Melancholy contemplation (Moundsville, WV) -- The stain (Danvers, MA, and Athens, OH) -- Awaiting the devil's coming (Charleston, SC, and Douglas County, KS) -- Our illustrious dead (Shiloh, TN) -- The wind through Cathedral Park (Portland, OR) -- The wet grave (New Orleans, LA) -- Among the ruins (Detroit, MI) -- Hillsdale, USA -- Epilogue: Ghosts of a new machine (Allendale, CA)
- Control code
- ocn936619826
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 320 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101980194
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2016044006
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40026532333
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781101980194
- (OCoLC)936619826
- Label
- Ghostland : an American history in haunted places, Colin Dickey
- Note
- Includes index
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-308) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Anatomy of a haunting (New York, NY) -- The secret staircase (Salem, MA) -- Shifting ground (St. Francisville, LA) -- The endless house (San Jose, CA) -- The rathole revelation (Georgetown, NY, and Bull Valley, IL) -- The family that would not live (St. Louis, MO) -- A devilish place (Richmond, VA) -- Baby (Reno, NV) -- Passing through (Los Angeles, CA) -- Melancholy contemplation (Moundsville, WV) -- The stain (Danvers, MA, and Athens, OH) -- Awaiting the devil's coming (Charleston, SC, and Douglas County, KS) -- Our illustrious dead (Shiloh, TN) -- The wind through Cathedral Park (Portland, OR) -- The wet grave (New Orleans, LA) -- Among the ruins (Detroit, MI) -- Hillsdale, USA -- Epilogue: Ghosts of a new machine (Allendale, CA)
- Control code
- ocn936619826
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 320 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101980194
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2016044006
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40026532333
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781101980194
- (OCoLC)936619826
Subject
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Supernatural
- Ghosts
- HISTORY -- United States
- HISTORY -- United States -- Gen
- HISTORY / United States / General
- Haunted houses -- United States
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Supernatural
- Haunted places -- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest | General
- TRAVEL / Special Interest / General
- United States
- Haunted places
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Supernatural
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