The specter of Salem
Subtitle: remembering the witch trials in nineteenth-century America
By: Gretchen A. Adams.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226005416
Subjects: Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 19th century; Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 19th century; Salem (Mass.) -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mysteries, memories, and metaphors: from event to memory; title: Memory and nation: the early republic; title: Not to hell but to Salem: antebellum religious crises; title: Witch-burners: the politics of the era of civil war; title: Witch-hunters: the era of national reconstruction; title: Epilogue: the crucible of memory.