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The specter of Salem : remembering the witch trials in nineteenth-century America /

As critics of McCarthyism derided the period's anti-Communist campaign as a "witch hunt," the 1950s Broadway drama The Crucible underscored the link between contemporary political investigations and the 1692 Salem witch trials. The Specter of Salem reveals that this twentieth-century...

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Основен автор: Adams, Gretchen A.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=266000
Подобни документи: Print version:: Specter of Salem.
Съдържание:
  • Mysteries, memories, and metaphors: from event to memory
  • Memory and nation: the early republic
  • Not to hell but to Salem: antebellum religious crises
  • Witch-burners: the politics of sectionalism
  • Witch-hunters: the era of civil war and reconstruction
  • Epilogue: the crucible of memory.