Description: The Witches : Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem by Stacy Schiff.... 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 tension 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. This book is USED.So there may be some imperfections.Please see pictures.Thank you for looking!
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Type: Novel
Features: Illustrated
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Witches : Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem
Item Length: 8.2in
Item Height: 1.4in
Item Width: 5.5in
Author: Stacy Schiff
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), Historical
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication Year: 2016
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Body, Mind & Spirit, History
Item Weight: 17.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 512 Pages
