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Salem Story engages the story of the Salem witch trials by contrasting an analysis of the surviving primary documentation with the way events of 1692 have been mythologised by our culture. Resisting the temptation to explain the Salem witch trials in the context of an inclusive theoretical framework, the book examines a variety of individual motives that converged to precipitate the witch-hunt. Of the many assumptions about the Salem witch trials, the most persistent is that they were instigated by a circle of hysterical girls. Through an analysis of what actually happened - by perusal of the primary materials with the 'close reading' approach of a literary critic - a different picture emerges, one where 'hysteria' inappropriately describes the logical, rational strategies of accusation and confession followed by the accusers, males and females alike.

Witchcraft --- Salem (Mass.) --- Trials (Witchcraft) --- Massachusetts --- Church history --- Witchcraft - Massachusetts - Salem. --- Trials (Witchcraft) - Massachusetts - Salem. --- Salem (Mass.) - Church history. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Church history. --- Witch City (Mass.) --- City of Witches (Mass.) --- City of Salem (Mass.)

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"A century ago, governments buoyed by Progressive Era-beliefs began to assume greater responsibility for protecting and rescuing citizens. Yet the aftermath of two disasters in the United States-Canada borderlands--the Salem Fire of 1914 and the Halifax Explosion of 1917--saw working class survivors instead turn to friends, neighbors, coworkers, and family members for succor and aid. Both official and unofficial responses, meanwhile, showed how the United States and Canada were linked by experts, workers, and money. In Disaster Citizenship, Jacob A.C. Remes draws on histories of the Salem and Halifax events to explore the institutions--both formal and informal--that ordinary people relied upon in times of crisis. He explores patterns and traditions of self-help, informal order, and solidarity and details how people adapted these traditions when necessary. Yet, as he shows, these methods--though often quick and effective--remained illegible to reformers. Indeed, soldiers, social workers, and reformers wielding extraordinary emergency powers challenged these grassroots practices to impose progressive 'solutions' on what they wrongly imagined to be a fractured social landscape. Innovative and engaging, Disaster Citizenship excavates the forgotten networks of solidarity and obligation in an earlier time while simultaneously suggesting new frameworks in the emerging field of critical disaster studies"--

HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations. --- Power (Social sciences) --- Solidarity --- Working class --- Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917. --- Fires --- Disaster relief --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Cooperation --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Explosions --- Buildings --- Conflagrations --- Fire losses --- Accidents --- Disasters --- Fire --- Disaster assistance --- Emergency assistance in disasters --- Emergency relief --- Emergency management --- Human services --- History --- Social aspects --- Employment --- Fires and fire prevention --- Halifax (N.S.) --- Salem (Mass.) --- Witch City (Mass.) --- City of Witches (Mass.) --- City of Salem (Mass.) --- Halifax, N.S. --- הליפקס (N.S.) --- Halifaḳs (N.S.) --- Halifax Regional Municipality (N.S.) --- Social conditions