Storm of Witchcraft - The Salem Trials and the American Experience

Zusatztext I found it a really fascinating book. ...once I had started reading it I couldn't put it down. As history books go, I found it is a real page-turner. Informationen zum Autor Emerson W. Baker is Professor of History at Salem State College. 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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?

List of contents

• 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?

About the author

Emerson W. Baker is Professor of History at Salem State College. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Emerson W Baker, Emerson W. Baker, Emerson W. (Professor of History Baker, Baker Emerson W.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2014
• EAN: 9780199890347
• ISBN: 978-0-19-989034-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Pivotal Moments in American History; Pivotal Moments in American Hi
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Self-tuition materials (general); Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Amerikanische Geschichte, USA Nordosten, Neuengland Staaten, Massachusetts, Witchcraft, RELIGION / Wicca, USA: Kolonisierung und Besiedlung (ca. 1600 bis 1775), HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), History - U.S., BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Witchcraft (see also RELIGION / Wicca), HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT), 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700