Richard Godbeer
Autor(a) de Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692
About the Author
Richard Godbeer is a professor of history at the University of Miami. His books include Sexual Revolution in Early America, also published by Johns Hopkins, The Salem Witch Hunt: A Brief History with Documents, Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692, and The Devil's Dominion: Magic and mostrar mais Religion in Early New England. mostrar menos
Obras por Richard Godbeer
Associated Works
Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (1999) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
The World of John Winthrop: England and New England, 1588-1649 (Massachusetts Historical Society Studies in American… (2006) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1961
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Essex, England
- Locais de residência
- Shropshire, England
Gloustershire, England
Boston, Massachusetts
California
Florida - Educação
- Oxford University (BA, 1984)
Brandeis University (Ph.D, 1989) - Ocupações
- professor
author - Organizações
- University of California, Riverside
University of Miami
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 474
- Popularidade
- #52,001
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 4
- ISBN
- 21
- Línguas
- 1
Well researched, and providing significant context (the intercolonial wars between New France and New England, as well as wars with Indigenous peoples) for the witch trials, Godbeer's work contributes signifiantly to the scholarship of colonial New England's social history. The only weakness I can highlight is that he could have spent more time on the impact of the Canadiens, and how New Englanders percieved them in relation to their witch anxieties, though he does lightly touch on this with reference to Cotton Mather.
Overall, an excellent work, highly recommended for students of colonial New England and the Salem witch trials.… (mais)