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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780674785250
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Salem Possessed : the Social Origins of Witchcraft
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Genre
- Body, Mind & Spirit, History
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / General, Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), United States / General
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674785258
ISBN-13
9780674785250
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1453409
Product Key Features
Topic
United States / State & Local / General, Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), United States / General
Book Title
Salem Possessed : the Social Origins of Witchcraft
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, History
Format
Hardcover
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
73-084399
Reviews
A provocative book. Drawing upon an impressive range of unpublished local sources, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum provide a challenging new interpretation of the outbreak of witchcraft in Salem Village. They argue that previous historians erroneously divorced the tragic events of 1692 from the long-term development of the village and therefore failed to realize that the witch trials were simply one particularly violent chapter in a series of local controversies dating back to the 1660s. In their reconstruction of the socio-economic conditions that contributed to the intense factionalism in Salem Village, Boyer and Nissenbaum have made a major contribution to the social history of colonial New England...[They] have provided us with a first-rate discussion of factionalism in a seventeenth-century New England community. Their handling of economic, familial, and spatial relationships within Salem Village is both sophisticated and imaginative., This short book is a solid contribution to the understanding of the 1692 witch trials. The authors use impressively rich demographic detail to support the thesis that the witch trials are best explained as symptoms of typical social tensions in provincial towns at the time. According to Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem villagers played roles determined by economic, geographic, and status interests., An important, imaginative book that brings new insights to the study of the 1692 witchcraft outbreak in Massachusetts. Building on Charles Upham's Salem Witchcraft (1867), Boyer and Nissenbaum explore decades of community tension and conflict in order to explain why Salem was the focus of this episode. The authors reveal a complex set of relationships between persons allied with the growing mercantile interests of Salem Town and those linked to the subsistence-based economy of outlying Salem Village., Provides an admirable illustration of the general rule that, in Old and New England alike, much of the best sociological history of the twentieth century has only been made possible by the antiquarian and genealogical interests of the nineteenth...This sensitive, intelligent, and well-written book will certainly revive interest in the terrible happenings at Salem., The authors' whole approach to the Salem disaster is canny, rewarding, and sure to fascinate readers interested in that aberrant affair., Salem Possessed is a provocative book. Drawing upon an impressive range of unpublished local sources, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum provide a challenging new interpretation of the outbreak of witchcraft in Salem Village... A major contribution to the social history of colonial New England... Sophisticated and imaginative., This is an 'inner history' of Salem Village that aims to raise the events of 1692 from melodrama to tragedy...It is a large achievement. This book is progressive history at its best, with brilliant insights, well-organized evidence, maps, and footnotes at the bottom of the page.
Dewey Edition
18
Dewey Decimal
301.2/1
Synopsis
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 entagled in it.
LC Classification Number
BF1576
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