Books by Emerson W. Baker and Complete Book Reviews

Emerson W. Baker, Author . Palgrave Macmillan $24.95 (244p) ISBN 978-1-4039-7207-1
Baker, who teaches history at Salem State College, examines a witchcraft accusation made a decade before the more famous Salem outbreak. In June 1682, someone showered stones at a Great Island, N.H., tavern owned by a Quaker named George Walton....
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Emerson W. Baker. Oxford Univ, $29.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-19-989034-7
Salem, Mass., also known as “Witch City,” is infamous for its 1692 witch trials, in which at least 169 people were accused and 19 hanged as witches (plus the five who died in prison and Giles Corey, who was pressed to death). The Salem trials weren’t
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