Description
In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England
during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new
preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present.
Author: John Putnam Demos
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/18/2004
Pages: 543
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.58w x 1.37d
ISBN13: 9780195174830
ISBN10: 0195174836
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- History | United States | State & Local | New England (CT, MA, ME, NH,
- History | Social History
during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new
preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present.
Author: John Putnam Demos
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/18/2004
Pages: 543
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.58w x 1.37d
ISBN13: 9780195174830
ISBN10: 0195174836
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- History | United States | State & Local | New England (CT, MA, ME, NH,
- History | Social History
About the Author
John Putnam Demos is Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony and The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America.
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