The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England, Paperback - Emerson W. Baker

Reducere. In 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demo...

Reducere. Mary Dyer is widely esteemed as one of the "Boston martyrs"- four Quakers hanged by the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1659 and 1661. When she re...

Reducere. In Detestable and Wicked Arts, Paul B. Moyer places early New England's battle against black magic in a transatlantic perspective. Moyer provides a...

Peacey unearths and reconstructs a strange early modern dispute over a small estate in Gloucestershire that was contested over a period of 160 year...

Witchcraft in Early Modern England provides a fascinating introduction to the history of witches and witchcraft in England from the sixteenth to th...

Reducere. DescriptionFocusing on the Connecticut River Valley--New England's longest river and largest watershed-- Strother Roberts traces the local, regiona...

Reducere. They flew through the air, consorted with animals, and made pacts with the devil. Witches were as unquestioned as alchemy or astrology in medieval ...

This collection of essays opens a new perspective on the interplay of religious conflict and literary culture in early modern England. Focusing on ...

Reducere. IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems describes the creation of this remarkable system and the developments it spawned, including its successor, System/3...

This Element covers the art produced in early medieval England from the departure of the Romans to the early twelfth century, an art that shows the...

This beautifully designed, full-color textbook introduces the Roman background of the New Testament by immersing students in the life and culture o...

This study argues that the female voice occupied a key role in the early Stuart political imaginary as a means of signalling resistance to tyranny....

Reducere. DescriptionSydney G. Fisher describes the arrival and settlement of the Quaker denomination in colonial North America during the 17th and 18th cent...

Contributor(s): Author: Erika GasserStories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colo...

Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance.

Reducere. Reflecting the growing scholarly interest in transnational and comparative approaches to studying the past, British Atlantic, American Frontier off...

Publisher: Cinebook LtdAuthor(s): JobIllustration(s): 48 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 48Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 218 x 286 x...

Henry III was a determined and dynamic ruler with vision, not the weak and inept king of conventional portrayal

A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingd...

Reducere. W. Deloss love's biography of Samson Occom is a work of in time. Long out of print, this classic account reveals one of the most unusual actors to ...

Grey is certain that it does, and that it lies hidden - somewhere in Tokyo. Alone in an alien city, Grey becomes a hostess in an exclusive club cat...

Reducere. Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeWidely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound ...

Demonstrates the importance of textual production to understanding the place of drama in the early modern public sphere. This collection of essays ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 20 bw illusNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 216 x 22Cover type: Pap...

The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England - Ethan H. Shagan

Reducere. THE BOOK THEY TRIED TO BANWhen the first edition of this book was released, conservative Gardnerian Witches attempted to suppress it, claiming that...

Reducere. Sons of Privilege traces the wartime experiences of a unique Confederate cavalry unit drawn together from South Carolina's most prestigious familie...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): MorilloNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 234 x 27Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmec...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): MorilloNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesc...

A study of place, identity, music, politics and regionalism which calls for a radical restructuring of the British Isles.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather McCollumEnglishwoman, Grace Ellington, has made a home in Scotland, but to escape from the meddling people around h...

Reducere. Seneca Possessed examines the ordeal of a Native people in the wake of the American Revolution. As part of the once-formidable Iroquois Six Nations...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The origins and ever-changing story of America's favorite holidayAbout the AuthorJAMES W. BAKER was the director of research at Plimoth Plantation ...

The impact of global trade on early American visual and material culturePublisher: University Press of New EnglandIllustration(s): 136 illus. (27 c...

Reducere. Perhaps even more than the Boston Red Sox, the New England Patriots are the team of the entire northeast from Rhode Island to Canada. Here, sports ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Pequot War, then keep reading...The Pequot War (1636-1638) was a short-lived but extremely v...

Reducere. A Genealogy Of The Lake Family Of Great Egg Harbour In Old Gloucester County In New Jersey: Descended From John Lade Of Gravesend, Long Island; Wit...

This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that e...

In a series of wide-ranging chapters on politics in thought, word and deed, twelve colleagues of the late Mark Kishlansky reconsider the history of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edmund S. MorganThis book makes the provocative case here that America has remained politically stable because the Founding...

PIRATES AND THEIR TREASURE IN NEW ENGLAND AND ON CAPE COD. Who were they and why were they here? The Golden Age on Cape Cod in New England was betw...

Reducere. Belief in the devil and other evil spirits of the Christian tradition is a topic that has been widely discussed in recent years. Since the release ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Jonathan (University of Exeter, UK) HughesIllustration(s): 12 bw illusNumber of pages: 440Publica...