The Haunted: A Social History of Ghosts

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Palgrave Macmillan UK, Oct 10, 2007 - History - 299 pages
'The Haunted' is the first truly comprehensive social history of ghosts. Using fascinating and entertaining examples, Davies places the history of ghosts within their wider social and cultural context, and examines why a belief in ghosts continues to be vibrant, socially relevant and historically illuminating.

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OWEN DAVIES is Reader in Social History at the University of Hertfordshire.

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