The witches : Salem, 1692 / Stacy Schiff.
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 nineteen men and women had been hanged and an eighty-year-old 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.- from web
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316200608
- ISBN: 0316200603
- ISBN: 9780316200592
- ISBN: 031620059X
- ISBN: 9780316353700
- ISBN: 0316353701
- Physical Description: 498 pages, 16 pages unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Color map on endpages. First Back Bay trade paperback edition subtitle is: "suspicion, betrayal, and hysteria in 1692 Salem" |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographic references (pages 481-482) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Trials (Witchcraft) > Massachusetts > Salem > 17th century. Witchcraft > Massachusetts > Salem > History > 17th century. Women > Massachusetts > Salem > History > 17th century. Women. Womyn. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Madison County Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Madison Main Library | 345.744 SCH (Text) | 30229101001112 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Mars Hill Library | 345.744 SCH (Text) | 30229101001120 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
