Books by John Demos and Complete Book Reviews

John Demos, Author . Viking $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-01999-1
Noted Yale historian Demos has devoted almost half a century to studying the European and American witch crazes, and his new book distills all he has learned. The book focuses from roughly A.D. 500 through 1700, with a concluding section on the...
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John Demos, Author Knopf Publishing Group $27.5 (315p) ISBN 978-0-394-55782-3
The armed conflicts of the 18th century between the English colonies in North America and the French settlements that stretched into Canada were fought with the support of Native American allies. Demos, a Yale history professor ( Entertaining Satan:
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John Demos. Knopf, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-679-45510-3
Demos, a Yale historian and master of micro-history (Bancroft and Parkman Prize winner for Unredeemed Captive), turns his attention here to a well-intentioned 1820s effort to create a Connecticut school to Christianize “heathens” (mostly Indians and
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