Possessions

Description:

"The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts-- the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned to claim possession of imaginations and territories." -- dust jacket flap.

subjects: Ghost towns,  Hudson river and valley, description and travel,  Supernatural in literature,  Hudson river and valley,  Ghosts,  Haunted places,  Ghosts in literature,  Social life and customs