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Author Adams, Gretchen A.

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

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  BF1576 .A33 2008    Available  ---
Description xiii, 223 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-215) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 19th century.
Witchcraft.
Massachusetts -- Salem.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 19th century.
Trials (Witchcraft)
Salem (Mass.) -- Social conditions.
ISBN 9780226005416 cloth alkaline paper
0226005410 cloth alkaline paper