Salem possessed : the social origins of witchcraft / Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England : Harvard University Press, [1974]Copyright date: Description: xxi, 231 pages : illustrations, maps, charts, genealogical tables ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0674785258
  • 9780674785250
  • 9780674785267
  • 0674785266
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Salem possessed.; Online version:: Salem possessed.DDC classification:
  • 301.2/1
LOC classification:
  • KFM2478.8.W5 B68
  • BF1576 .B6 1974
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue: What happened in 1692 -- 1692 : some new perspectives -- In quest of community, 1639-1687 -- Afflicted village, 1688-1697 -- Salem Town and Salem Village : the dynamics of factional conflict -- Two families : the Porters and the Putnams -- Joseph and his brothers : a story of the Putnam family -- Samuel Parris : a pilgrim in Bethlehem -- Witchcraft and social identity -- Epilogue: To the eighteenth century.
Summary: "The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more than a generation before building toward the climactic witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entangled in it."--Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: What happened in 1692 -- 1692 : some new perspectives -- In quest of community, 1639-1687 -- Afflicted village, 1688-1697 -- Salem Town and Salem Village : the dynamics of factional conflict -- Two families : the Porters and the Putnams -- Joseph and his brothers : a story of the Putnam family -- Samuel Parris : a pilgrim in Bethlehem -- Witchcraft and social identity -- Epilogue: To the eighteenth century.

"The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more than a generation before building toward the climactic witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entangled in it."--Back cover.

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