Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England / Edition 2

by Paul Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum

Overview

Few episodes in American history have aroused such intense and continued interest as the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials. This volume draws exclusively on primary documents to reveal the underlying conflicts and tensions that caused that small, agricultural settlement to explode with such dramatic force.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555531652
Publisher:	University Press of New England
Publication date:	09/24/1993
Edition description:	New edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.99(d)

About the Author

PAUL BOYER is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. STEPHEN NISSENBAUM is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. They are co-authors of Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft and The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts.

Editorial Reviews

New edition of the Wadsworth original of 1972. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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