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The witches : Salem, 1692 : a history
- Title
- The witches : Salem, 1692 : a history / Stacy Schiff.
- Author
- Schiff, Stacy.
- Publication
- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of Orion Books, 2016.
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 496 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, facsimiles; 20 cm
- Summary
- "Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials ... Along with suffrage and Prohibition, the Salem witch trials represent one of the few moments when women played the central role in American history. Drawing masterfully on the archives, Stacy Schiff introduces us to the strains on a Puritan adolescent's life and to the authorities whose delicate agendas were at risk. She illuminates the demands of a rigorous faith, the vulnerability of settlements adrift from the mother country, perched -- at a politically tumultuous time -- on the edge of what a visitor termed a 'remote, rocky, barren, bushy, wild-woody wilderness.' With devastating clarity, the textures and tensions of a colonial life emerge; hidden patterns subtly, startlingly detach themselves from the darkness. Schiff brings early American anxieties to the fore to align them brilliantly with our own. In an era of religious provocations, crowdsourcing, and invisible enemies, this enthralling story makes more sense than ever. The Witches is Schiff's riveting account of a seminal episode, a primal American mystery unveiled -- in crackling detail and lyrical prose -- by one of our most acclaimed historians"-
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-482) and index.
- Contents
- The diseases of astonishment -- That old deluder -- The working of wonders -- One of you is a devil -- The wizard -- A suburb of hell -- Now they say there is above seven hundred in all -- In these hellish meetings -- Our case is extraordinary -- Published to prevent false reports -- That dark and mysterious season -- A long train of miserable consequences.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-1761
- ISBN
- 9781474602266
- 1474602266
- OCLC
- 961292266
- Author
- Schiff, Stacy.
- Title
- The witches : Salem, 1692 : a history / Stacy Schiff.
- Publisher
- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of Orion Books, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Edition
- Paperback edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-482) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1600-1775
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-1761