Emerson W. Baker (Professor of History, Professor of History, Salem

A Storm of Witchcraft

The Salem Trials and the American Experience

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating account of the Salem Witch Trials explores their religious, social, and political dimensions, their origins, their critics, and their aftermath, as well as their influence on the American cultural imagination to the present day.

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Produktdetails

• Pivotal Moments in American History
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 141mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780190627805
• ISBN-10: 0190627808
• Artikelnr.: 47866290

Autorenporträt

Emerson W. Baker is Professor of History at Salem State University. He is the author of The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England, and co-author of an award-winning biography of Sir William Phips.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: An Old Valuables Chest
Chapter One: Satan's Storm
Chapter Two: The City upon a Hill
Chapter Three: Drawing Battle Lines in Salem Village
Chapter Four: The Afflicted
Chapter Five: The Accused
Chapter Six: The Judges
Chapter Seven: An Inextinguishable Flame
Chapter Eight: Salem End
Chapter Nine: Witch City?