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Author Boyer, Paul S., author

Title Salem possessed : the social origins of witchcraft / Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1974
Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England : Harvard University Press, [1974]
©1974

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 W'PONDS  133.43097445 Boy/Spt  AVAILABLE
 MELB  133.4 Boy/Spt  AVAILABLE
Description xxi, 231 pages : illustrations, maps, charts, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
Contents Prologue: What happened in 1692 -- 1692 : some new perspectives -- In quest of community, 1639-1687 -- Afflicted village, 1688-1697 -- Salem Town and Salem Village : the dynamics of factional conflict -- Two families : the Porters and the Putnams -- Joseph and his brothers : a story of the Putnam family -- Samuel Parris : a pilgrim in Bethlehem -- Witchcraft and social identity -- Epilogue: To the eighteenth century
Summary "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 entangled in it."--Back cover
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Porter family.
Putnam family.
Witchcraft -- Social aspects -- Massachusetts -- Salem.
Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem.
Witcheraft-Salem, Mass
Witchcraft -- history.
SUBJECT Salem (Mass.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85116709
Genre/Form Biographies.
Author Nissenbaum, Stephen, author
Harvard University. Press, publisher
LC no. 73084399
ISBN 0674785258
0674785266
9780674785250
9780674785267
Other Titles Salem possessed
OTHER TI ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012023082