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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780670019991
- Book Title
- Enemy Within : 2000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Body, Mind & Spirit, History
- Topic
- Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), Social History
- Item Weight
- 18.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670019992
ISBN-13
9780670019991
eBay Product ID (ePID)
65800916
Product Key Features
Book Title
Enemy Within : 2000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), Social History
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-021427
Reviews
"No scholar has done more to illuminate the terrifying psychology of witchcraft in Western culture than John Demos. The Enemy Within is a masterful synthesis of this phenomenon, stretching over 2000 years, from its origins in Europe through the Salem witch trials, the Red-hunting campaigns of Senator Joe McCarthy, and the modern-day hysteria surrounding Satanic cults and sensational child abuse charges. An elegant writer, a brilliant historical investigator, Demos is the perfect guide for this rich and fascinating journey." --David Oshinsky, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History for Polio: An American Story and author of A Conspiracy so Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy “Only John Demos could write this book! In succinct and well-written chapters, Demos introduces readers to the ways in which anger and fear have caused western societies to turn inward in panics we now call witch-hunts. The Enemy Within , simultaneously sweeping and specific, broadens Demos's earlier work on witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England into a thought-provoking and wide-ranging study.â€� --Mary Beth Norton, author of In the Devil's Snare “A searing story, and a remarkable read. Unlike most historians, Demos does not flinch from taking us up close to real characters. We see the world through the eyes of men and women accused of witchcraft by neighbors they had known for years, as he probes the psychodynamics at work in this terrible experience. In a distillation of a lifetime's research, Demos, who is the foremost scholar of early American witchcraft, reveals patterns that go back to the European middle ages and explains how shifting interpretations of Salem reflect its place at the heart of the American psyche.â€� --Lyndal Roper, Professor of Early Modern History, Balliol College, Oxford, "No scholar has done more to illuminate the terrifying psychology of witchcraft in Western culture than John Demos. The Enemy Withinis a masterful synthesis of this phenomenon, stretching over 2000 years, from its origins in Europe through the Salem witch trials, the Red-hunting campaigns of Senator Joe McCarthy, and the modern-day hysteria surrounding Satanic cults and sensational child abuse charges. An elegant writer, a brilliant historical investigator, Demos is the perfect guide for this rich and fascinating journey." --David Oshinsky, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History for Polio: An American Storyand author of A Conspiracy so Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy Only John Demos could write this book! In succinct and well-written chapters, Demos introduces readers to the ways in which anger and fear have caused western societies to turn inward in panics we now call witch-hunts. The Enemy Within, simultaneously sweeping and specific, broadens Demos's earlier work on witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England into a thought-provoking and wide-ranging study.” --Mary Beth Norton, author of In the Devil's Snare A searing story, and a remarkable read. Unlike most historians, Demos does not flinch from taking us up close to real characters. We see the world through the eyes of men and women accused of witchcraft by neighbors they had known for years, as he probes the psychodynamics at work in this terrible experience. In a distillation of a lifetime's research, Demos, who is the foremost scholar of early American witchcraft, reveals patterns that go back to the European middle ages and explains how shifting interpretations of Salem reflect its place at the heart of the American psyche.” --Lyndal Roper, Professor of Early Modern History, Balliol College, Oxford
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
133.4/309
Synopsis
With the vision of a historian and the voice of a novelist, prize'winning author John Demos explores the social, cultural, and psychological roots of the scourge that is witch-hunting, both in the remote past and today. The Enemy Within chronicles the most prominent witch-hunts of the Western world'women and men who were targeted by suspicious neighbors and accused of committing horrific crimes by supernatural means'and shows how the fear of witchcraft has fueled recurrent cycles of accusation, persecution, and purging. A unique and fascinating book, it illumines the dark side of communities driven to rid themselves of perceived evil, no matter what the human cost.
LC Classification Number
BF1566.D46 2008
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