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1000893
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b755263
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Adams, Gretchen A.
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The specter of Salem : : remembering the witch trials in nineteenth-century America /\ Gretchen A. Adams.
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2008.
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1 online resource (xiii, 223 pages)
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| ISBN
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0226005429
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: 1282004727
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: 661200472X
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: 9780226005423
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: 9781282004726
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: 9786612004728
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0226005410
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9780226005416
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-215) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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As critics of McCarthyism derided the period's anti-Communist campaign as a "witch hunt," the 1950s Broadway drama The Crucible underscored the link between contemporary political investigations and the 1692 Salem witch trials. The Specter of Salem reveals that this twentieth-century cultural moment, often cited as marking the emergence of such associations, actually followed a long and colorful history of appeals to American memories of the witch trials. From the American Revolution through the nineteenth century, Gretchen Adams demonstrates, this collective memory loomed large in public life.
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Trials (Witchcraft)-- Massachusetts-- Salem-- History-- 19th century.
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Witchcraft-- Massachusetts-- Salem-- History-- 19th century.
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BODY, MIND SPIRIT-- Magick Studies.
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BODY, MIND SPIRIT-- Witchcraft Wicca.
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Social conditions
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Trials (Witchcraft)
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Witchcraft.
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Salem (Mass.), Social conditions.
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Massachusetts, Salem.
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| Dewey Classification
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133.4/3097445
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BF1576.A33 2008eb
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