Elaine G Breslaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 685176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine G Breslaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine G |
| FAMILY NAME | Breslaw |
| SIGNATURE | BRESLAW E G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Susan H. Brandt, Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia
Maternal Bodies: Redefining Motherhood in Early America
Witchcraft in Early North America
Part of the American Controversies series, which features works with introductory essays and pertinent primary sources, Witchcraft in Early North America focuses on the interaction of witchcraft beliefs between the Spanish, the French, and the English colonists and Native Americans and Africans in North America. Alison Games's long introduction briefly analyzes the beliefs of each group to demonstrate how they converged and changed as people inte…
Witches in the Atlantic World
This topic examines the beliefs about witchcraft and the nature of witch-hunts in a variety of cultures that rim the Atlantic Ocean. The focus is on areas that participated, either passively or actively, in the European westward expansion from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Those areas include western Europe, England and Scotland, parts of West Africa, and American Indian groups, all of whom felt the impact of this expansion and were br…
Marriage, Money, and Sex: Dr. Hamilton Finds a Wife
This essay evaluates the relative strength of sexual urges, the quest for wealth, and the importance of social prestige in the American side of the transatlantic marriage market through the adventures of a Scots émigré, Dr. Alexander Hamilton. Restrained by ambiguous Scottish sexual mores, a difficult financial situation, and the intent of colonial women to find mates among the wealthy, Dr. Hamilton was forced to delay marriage for years. His suc…
The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover
A colonial Virginia gentleman's thoughts on society, sex, and power William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into …
Slavery, Freedom and Culture among Early American Workers
Book Review| April 01 2000 Slavery, Freedom and Culture among Early American Workers Slavery, Freedom and Culture among Early American Workers, Graham Russell Hodges. Elaine G. Breslaw Elaine G. Breslaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2000) 19 (3): 122–123. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502594 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citatio…
The Complete Colonial Gentleman: Cultural Legitimacy in Plantation America
Builders of Annapolis: Enterprise and Politics in a Colonial Capital
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies
Journal Article Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies. By Elaine G. Breslaw New York and The Devils Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials. By Peter Charles Hoffer Baltimore Get access Amanda Porterfield Amanda Porterfield Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, …
The Devil's Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
Tituba's Confession: The Multicultural Dimensions of the 1692 Salem Witch-Hunt
This study examines Tituba's role in the Salem, Massachusetts, witch scare of 1692. It rejects the notion that Tituba was an African American or was involved in occult activities prior to February 1692 but stresses the multiethnic factors in her behavior and the influence of her American Indian background on the Puritan response. Her confession, blending elements from English, African, and American Indian notions of the occult and linking folk pr…
Records of the Tuesday Club of Annapolis, 1745-56
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies
The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club. Volumes I-III
Records of the Tuesday Club of Annapolis, 1745-56
Laughter in the Wilderness: Early American Humor to 1783
Wit, Whimsy, and Politics: The Uses of Satire by the Tuesday Club of Annapolis, 1744 to 1756
Witchcraft in Early North America
Part of the American Controversies series, which features works with introductory essays and pertinent primary sources, Witchcraft in Early North America focuses on the interaction of witchcraft beliefs between the Spanish, the French, and the English colonists and Native Americans and Africans in North America. Alison Games's long introduction briefly analyzes the beliefs of each group to demonstrate how they converged and changed as people inte…
Witches in the Atlantic World
This topic examines the beliefs about witchcraft and the nature of witch-hunts in a variety of cultures that rim the Atlantic Ocean. The focus is on areas that participated, either passively or actively, in the European westward expansion from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Those areas include western Europe, England and Scotland, parts of West Africa, and American Indian groups, all of whom felt the impact of this expansion and were br…
The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover
A colonial Virginia gentleman's thoughts on society, sex, and power William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into …
Tituba's Confession: The Multicultural Dimensions of the 1692 Salem Witch-Hunt
This study examines Tituba's role in the Salem, Massachusetts, witch scare of 1692. It rejects the notion that Tituba was an African American or was involved in occult activities prior to February 1692 but stresses the multiethnic factors in her behavior and the influence of her American Indian background on the Puritan response. Her confession, blending elements from English, African, and American Indian notions of the occult and linking folk pr…
Wit, Whimsy, and Politics: The Uses of Satire by the Tuesday Club of Annapolis, 1744 to 1756
Laughter in the Wilderness: Early American Humor to 1783
Records of the Tuesday Club of Annapolis, 1745-56
The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club. Volumes I-III
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies
Records of the Tuesday Club of Annapolis, 1745-56
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies
Journal Article Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies. By Elaine G. Breslaw New York and The Devils Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials. By Peter Charles Hoffer Baltimore Get access Amanda Porterfield Amanda Porterfield Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, …
The Devil's Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
Tituba's Confession: The Multicultural Dimensions of the 1692 Salem Witch-Hunt
This study examines Tituba's role in the Salem, Massachusetts, witch scare of 1692. It rejects the notion that Tituba was an African American or was involved in occult activities prior to February 1692 but stresses the multiethnic factors in her behavior and the influence of her American Indian background on the Puritan response. Her confession, blending elements from English, African, and American Indian notions of the occult and linking folk pr…
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies
The Complete Colonial Gentleman: Cultural Legitimacy in Plantation America
Builders of Annapolis: Enterprise and Politics in a Colonial Capital
Slavery, Freedom and Culture among Early American Workers
Book Review| April 01 2000 Slavery, Freedom and Culture among Early American Workers Slavery, Freedom and Culture among Early American Workers, Graham Russell Hodges. Elaine G. Breslaw Elaine G. Breslaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2000) 19 (3): 122–123. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502594 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citatio…
The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover
A colonial Virginia gentleman's thoughts on society, sex, and power William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into …
Witches in the Atlantic World
This topic examines the beliefs about witchcraft and the nature of witch-hunts in a variety of cultures that rim the Atlantic Ocean. The focus is on areas that participated, either passively or actively, in the European westward expansion from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Those areas include western Europe, England and Scotland, parts of West Africa, and American Indian groups, all of whom felt the impact of this expansion and were br…
Marriage, Money, and Sex: Dr. Hamilton Finds a Wife
This essay evaluates the relative strength of sexual urges, the quest for wealth, and the importance of social prestige in the American side of the transatlantic marriage market through the adventures of a Scots émigré, Dr. Alexander Hamilton. Restrained by ambiguous Scottish sexual mores, a difficult financial situation, and the intent of colonial women to find mates among the wealthy, Dr. Hamilton was forced to delay marriage for years. His suc…
Witchcraft in Early North America
Part of the American Controversies series, which features works with introductory essays and pertinent primary sources, Witchcraft in Early North America focuses on the interaction of witchcraft beliefs between the Spanish, the French, and the English colonists and Native Americans and Africans in North America. Alison Games's long introduction briefly analyzes the beliefs of each group to demonstrate how they converged and changed as people inte…
Maternal Bodies: Redefining Motherhood in Early America
Susan H. Brandt, Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia
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