The specter of Salem : remembering the witch trials in nineteenth-century America / Gretchen A. Adams.

By:

Adams, Gretchen A

Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2010Distributor: Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor]Description: xiii, 223 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780226005430 (pbk.)
0226005437 (pbk.)
0226005429 (ebook)
9780226005423 (ebook)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

133.43097445 22

LOC classification:

BF1576 .A33 2010

Contents:

Introduction -- Mysteries, memories, and metaphors: from event to memory -- Memory and nation: the early republic -- Not to hell but to Salem: antebellum religious crises -- Witch-burners: the politics of sectionalism -- Witch-hunters: the era of Civil War and Reconstruction -- Epilogue: The crucible of memory.

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Book	NMC Library	Stacks	BF1576 .A33 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		33039001213817

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Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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