Witches & historians : interpretations of Salem

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Other Authors: Mappen, Marc (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Huntington, N.Y. : R.E. Krieger Pub. Co., 1980.
Series:American problem studies
Subjects:
1600-1775
Witchcraft > Massachusetts > Salem > History > 17th century.
Trials (Witchcraft) > Massachusetts > Salem > History > 17th century.
Witchcraft > history.
Sorcellerie > Massachusetts > Salem.
Trials (Witchcraft)
Witchcraft.
Witchcraft > Massachusetts.
Salem (Mass.) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Salem (Mass.) > Histoire.
Massachusetts > Salem.
Salem (Mass.) > History > Colonial Period, 1600-1775.
Massachusetts > History > Colonial Period, 1600-1775.
History.
Essays.
Table of Contents:
  • A traditional interpretation of witchcraft / John Fiske
  • A new interpretation of witchcraft / Lawrence Stone
  • Satan's attack on New England / Cotton Mather
  • An attack on the trials / Robert Calef
  • The lessons of Salem / John Hale
  • The afflicted girls were lying / Charles W. Upham
  • Some of the witches were guilty / Chadwick Hansen
  • A physician diagnoses hysteria / Ernest Caulfield
  • A biologist diganoses disease / Linnda R. Caporael
  • The disease diagnosis disputed / Nicholas P. Spanos and Jack Gottlieb
  • A small chapter in an old superstition / George L. Kittredge
  • The Puritans and the witches / Perry Miller
  • Underlying themes / John Demos
  • Witchcraft and social disruption / Kai T. Erikson
  • A clash of two worlds / Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum.

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