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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788173803321

Titolo

Salem : place, myth, and memory / / edited by Dane Anthony Morrison, Nancy Lusignan Schultz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Northeastern University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-55553-851-7

Edizione

[Updated edition 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Disciplina

974.4/02

Soggetti

Group identity - Massachusetts - Salem

Human geography - Massachusetts - Salem

Salem (Mass.) History

Salem (Mass.) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface for the General Reader; Preface for Instructors and Students; Introduction | Salem Enshrined: Myth, Memory, and the Power of Place by Nancy Lusignan Schultz and Dane Anthony Morrison; 1 | Salem as Frontier Outpost by Emerson W. Baker II; 2 | Salem as Religious Proving Ground by Christopher White; 3 | Salem as Enterprise Zone, 1783-1786 by Robert Booth; 4 | Salem as Athenaeum by Matthew G. McKenzie; 5 | Salem as Citizen of the World by Dane Anthony Morrison; 6 | Salem as the Nation's Schoolhouse by Rebecca R. Noel

7 | Salem as Hawthorne's Creation by Nancy Lusignan Schultz8 | Salem as Architectural Mecca by John V. Goff; 9 | Salem as a Global City, 1850-2004 by Aviva Chomsky; 10 | Salem as Crime Scene by Margaret Press; 11 | Salem as Witch City by Frances Hill; 12 | Salem's House of the Seven Gables as Historic Site by Lorinda B. R. Goodwin; 13 | Coda: Montage of Brick and Water by J. D. Scrimgeour; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A superb collection of essays on Salem's rich history and cultural life over the past four centuries