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Specter of Salem

Gretchen A. Adams
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      In "The Specter of Salem", Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to demonstrate the new nation's progress from a disorderly and brutal past to a rational present, while critics of new religious movements in the 1830s cast them as a return to Salem-era fanaticism, and during the Civil War southerners evoked witch burning to criticize Union tactics. Shedding new light on the many, varied American invocations of Salem, Adams ultimately illuminates the function of collective memories in the life of a nation.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Gretchen A. Adams EAN: 9780226005430 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-10-01 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Magick Studies, RELIGION / Christianity / History WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, c 1500 onwards to present day, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of the Americas, Social and cultural history, Witchcraft

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      Gretchen A. Adams is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University.
      In "The Specter of Salem", Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to demonstrate the new nation's progress from a disorderly and brutal past to a rational present, while critics of new religious movements in the 1830s cast them as a return to Salem-era fanaticism, and during the Civil War southerners evoked witch burning to criticize Union tactics. Shedding new light on the many, varied American invocations of Salem, Adams ultimately illuminates the function of collective memories in the life of a nation.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Gretchen A. Adams EAN: 9780226005430 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-10-01 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Magick Studies, RELIGION / Christianity / History WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, c 1500 onwards to present day, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of the Americas, Social and cultural history, Witchcraft

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      Gretchen A. Adams is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University.

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