The Salem Witch Crisis

by Larry Gragg

The Salem Witch Crisis offers a readable narrative of events surrounding the Massachusetts witch trials of 1692. Studies of early American witchcraft in the past two decades have been specialized ones. They demonstrated the possibility that economic conflict, gender and generational hostility, religious divisions, fears of witch cults, and challenges to the legal system sometimes were involved in witchcraft accusations. Collectively, these numerous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275941892
• ISBN13: 9780275941895
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.