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The Salem witch trials / Lori Lee Wilson.

By: Series: How History is InventedPublisher: Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Company, c1997Copyright date: c1997Description: 112 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 map, photographs; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0822548895
Other title:
  • At head of title: How history is invented
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 133.4/3/097445 20
LOC classification:
  • BF1575 .W613 1997
Contents:
The evolution of witchcraft -- Salem witchcraft-- Divine punishment-- Rationalism vs. witchcraft-- Diagnosing witchcraft-- Feminists and witchcraft-- A modern witch-hunt-- Witch city-- Becoming a historian-- Sources of information-- Index.
Summary: Discusses the witchcraft trials in Salem in 1692, the events leading up to them, and how the trials have been viewed by different historians since then.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-109) and index.

The evolution of witchcraft -- Salem witchcraft-- Divine punishment-- Rationalism vs. witchcraft-- Diagnosing witchcraft-- Feminists and witchcraft-- A modern witch-hunt-- Witch city-- Becoming a historian-- Sources of information-- Index.

Discusses the witchcraft trials in Salem in 1692, the events leading up to them, and how the trials have been viewed by different historians since then.