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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Salem. Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2004 (OCoLC)607194527 |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dane Anthony Morrison; Nancy Lusignan Schultz |
| ISBN: | 1555536093 9781555536091 |
| OCLC Number: | 53324954 |
| Description: | xx, 348 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : Salem enshrined : myth, memory, and the power of place / Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Dane Anthony Morrison -- Salem as frontier outpost / Emerson W. Baker II -- Salem as religious proving ground / Christopher White -- Salem as enterprise zone, 1783-1786 / Robert Booth -- Salem as athenaeum / Matthew G. McKenzie -- Salem as citizen of the world / Dane Anthony Morrison -- Salem as the nation's schoolhouse / Rebecca R. Noel -- Salem as Hawthorne's creation / Nancy Lusignan Schultz -- Salem as architectural mecca / John V. Goff -- Salem as a global city, 1850-2004 / Aviva Chomsky -- Salem as crime scene / Margaret Press -- Salem as witch city / Frances Hill -- Salem's House of the Seven Gables as historic site / Lorinda B.R. Goodwin -- Coda : montage of brick and water / J.D. Scrimgeour. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Dane Anthony Morrison, Nancy Lusignan Schultz. |
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Abstract:
How is a sense of place created, imagined, and reinterpreted over time? That is the intriguing question addressed in this comprehensive look at the 400-year, multi-layered history of Salem, Massachusetts, and the experiences of fourteen generations of people who lived in a place forever enshrined, indeed mythologized, in the public imagination by the horrific witch trials and executions of 1692 and 1693. By exploring the rich textures of Salem as a local, national, and global entity from its settling in 1626 to the present, this highly original, cohesive, and teachable collection illuminates how people influence a place and how a place influences its people.
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