The Transfer of Anti-Illuminati Conspiracy Theories to the United States in the Late Eighteenth Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction: Mapping Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East 1
5. I. The United States and the Middle East
6. My Enemies Must Be Friends: The American Extreme-Right, Conspiracy Theory, Islam, and the Middle East 35
7. From Mosaddeq to HAARP: Some Aspects of the Conspiratorial Component of U.S.-Iranian Relations 59
8. “Zionising” the Middle East: Rumours of the “Kissinger Plan” in Lebanon, 1973–1982 76
9. The Da Vinci Code, Crusade Conspiracies, and the Clash of Historiographies 100
10. II. The Politics of Conspiracy Theory
11. The Society of Death and Anglo-American Fears of Conspiracy in Gold Rush California, 1849–1858 121
12. The Function of Secrecy in Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories: The Case of Dönmes in Turkey 139
13. Hizbullah between Pan-Islamic Ideology and Domestic Politics: Conspiracy Theories as Medium for Political Mobilization and Integration 157
14. III. The Promises of Conspiracy Theory
15. Narrating the ‘Crisis of Representation’: The Cultural Work of Conspiracy in Larry Beinhart’s Novels on the Bush Presidencies 179
16. Small and Large Scale Conspiracy Theories and Their Problems: An Example from Turkey 194
17. “It Has All Been Planned”: Talking about Us and Powerful Others in Contemporary Syria 212
18. IV. Travelling Theories
19. The Transfer of Anti-Illuminati Conspiracy Theories to the United States in the Late Eighteenth Century 231
20. The Judeo-Masonic Conspiracy: The Path from the Cemetery of Prague to Arab Anti-Zionist Propaganda 251
21. Western Theories about Conspiracy Theories and the Middle Eastern Context: The Scope and Limits of Explanatory Transpositions 272
22. V. Theorizing Conspiracy Theory
23. The Politics of Conspiracy Theories: American Histories and Global Narratives 293
24. “What kind of man are you?”: The Gendered Foundations of U.S. Conspiracism and of Recent Conspiracy Theory Scholarship 311
25. Against the Cure 333
26. Plotting Future Directions in Conspiracy Theory Research 345
27. Bibliography 370
28. List of Contributors 374