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The specter of Salem : remembering the witch trials in nineteenth-century America / Gretchen A. Adams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adams, Gretchen A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Witchcraft--Massachusetts--Salem--History--19th century.
- Witchcraft.
- Trials (Witchcraft)--Massachusetts--Salem--History--19th century.
- Trials (Witchcraft).
- History.
- Salem (Mass.)--Social conditions.
- Salem (Mass.).
- Massachusetts--Salem.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 223 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226005416
- 0226005410
- OCLC:
- 225876052
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