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The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem HC DJ 2015
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Personalize
- No
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Personalized
- No
- Inscribed
- No
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9780316200592
- Book Title
- Witches : Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Body, Mind & Spirit, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Historical
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
031620059X
ISBN-13
9780316200592
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8038284656
Product Key Features
Book Title
Witches : Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Historical
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Stacy Schiff has brought her extraordinary gifts as researcher and writer to revivify the old but endlessly compelling story of the 1692 Salem witch hunt. Her mastery of detail, her ingenuity in spotting connections and trend lines, and her intuitive feel for the people involved combine in a brilliant portrayal of cascading human tragedy. It is sharply etched. It is ground level. It is emotionally powerful. It is full of surprising twists and turns. If history is time travel, this is a journey readers will never forget."-- John Demos, author of Entertaining Salem
Dewey Decimal
133.43097445
Synopsis
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra , the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, The Witches is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story -- the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians., Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra , provides an electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials. The panic began early in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece began to writhe and roar. It spread quickly, confounding the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, husbands accused wives, parents and children one another. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. Speaking loudly and emphatically, adolescent girls stood at the center of the crisis. 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 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.
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