Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951 Julia Pohle

Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951 Julia PohleIn this classic text, one of the leading academic historians of magic presents the first exploration of witchcraft in Britain in the centuries following the witch trials, from 1736 to 1951.

the volume covers a range of fields including mental health

providing conceptual frameworks

going beyond current debates that focus on the 'Democratic deficit'

Leading historians of the period scrutinise relations between centre and locality and how the state interacted with its citizens

in which we stated in the preface that cooperation was needed in all the major areas of current work

This is the first scholarly collection to focus on the special importance of British cinema to folk horror

yet it is a wildly inventive experimental work that dispels traditional forms of narration

Of how she danced in the masques of Inigo Jones

it shows that health care systems and modern states are indissolubly bound together

Explores a new area of Cromwellian studies that has not been fully explored before and covers a wide range of both domestic and international research

It examines clearly the policies introduced

Outi Hakola investigates the ways in which American living-dead films have addressed death through different narrative and rhetorical solutions during the twentieth century