The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World

The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World

BookThe Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World
ImprintViking
PublisherPenguin Group
Copyright HolderJohn Demos
Designed byFrancesca Belanger
Preface byJohn Demos
Author photo/portraitMoira Demos
Cover/Jacket Design byGregg Kulick
FormatHardback
LanguageEnglish
Copyright2008
Pages / Font318 pages / Dante
ISBN 13978-0-670-01999-1
Barcode9780670019991
Other1260217
ChaptersPreface Prologue PART ONE: EUROPE Chapter I: Martyrs of Lyons: A Story from the Beginning Chapter II: Witch-hunting Panorama, 150—1750 Chapter III: The Malleus Maleficarum: A Book and Its Travels PART TWO: EARLY AMERICA Chapter IV: Windsor, Connecticut, 1654: A Town Entertaining Satan Chapter V: Witch-hunting in the American Colonies, 1607—92 Chapter VI: Mary Parsons: A Life Under Suspicion PART THREE: SALEM Chapter VII: Rebecca Nurse: A "Witch" and Her Trials Chapter VIII: The Most Famous Witch-hunt of All, 1692—93 Chapter IX: The Revered Cotton Mather: A Minister and His Demons PART FOUR: MODERN AMERICA Chapter X: Anti-Masonry: A Politics of Panic Chapter XI: Saga of Scares, 1700—2000 Chapter XII: Fells Acres Day School: A Question of Abuse Epilogue Bibliographic Commentary Index of Names General Index
NotesPrinted in the United States of America Book Club Edition
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