Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic by Alicia Puglionesi PAPERBACK

Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science\nby Alicia Puglionesi\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Alicia Puglionesi\nTitle: Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: Stanford University Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781503612778\nISBN-10: 1503612775\nRRP: \u00A325.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nS\u00E9ances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. Though skeptics dismissed these experiences as delusions, a new kind of investigator emerged to seek the science behind such phenomena. With new technologies like the telegraph collapsing the boundaries of time and space, an explanati.