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Author | : Marilynne K. Roach |
Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publications |
Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781589791329 |
The Salem Witch Trials is based on over twenty-five years of archival research--including the author's discovery of previously unknown documents--newly found cases and court records. From January 1692 to January 1697 this history unfolds a nearly day-by-day narrative of the crisis as the citizens of New England experienced it.
Author | : Marilynne K. Roach |
Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publications |
Total Pages | : 751 |
Release | : 2004-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1589795113 |
Based on over twenty years of original archival research, this history unfolds a nearly day-by-day narrative of the Salem Witch Trials as the citizens of Salem experienced the outbreak of hysteria.
Author | : Marilynne K. Roach |
Publisher | : Cooper Square Publishers |
Total Pages | : 756 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This approach illuminates previously hidden connections and offers a revelatory way of viewing events over three centuries old.".
Author | : Karen Zeinert |
Publisher | : Franklin Watts |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Salem (Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
A vivid account of the hysteria that enveloped Salem and of the 19 people who lost their lives as a result.
Author | : Lori Lee Wilson |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780822548898 |
Discusses the witchcraft trials in Salem in 1692, the events leading up to them, and how the trials have been viewed by different historians since then.
Author | : Joan Holub |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2015-08-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0448479052 |
Something wicked was brewing in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It started when two girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, began having hysterical fits. Soon after, other local girls claimed they were being pricked with pins. With no scientific explanation available, the residents of Salem came to one conclusion: it was witchcraft! Over the next year and a half, nineteen people were convicted of witchcraft and hanged while more languished in prison as hysteria swept the colony. Author Joan Holub gives readers and inside look at this sinister chapter in history.
Author | : Mary Beth Norton |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030742636X |
Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study. In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had all but emptied the northern frontier of settlers, and many traumatized refugees—including the main accusers of witches—had fled to communities like Salem. Meanwhile the colony’s leaders, defensive about their own failure to protect the frontier, pondered how God’s people could be suffering at the hands of savages. Struck by the similarities between what the refugees had witnessed and what the witchcraft “victims” described, many were quick to see a vast conspiracy of the Devil (in league with the French and the Indians) threatening New England on all sides. By providing this essential context to the famous events, and by casting her net well beyond the borders of Salem itself, Norton sheds new light on one of the most perplexing and fascinating periods in our history.
Author | : Bernard Rosenthal |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521558204 |
Salem Story engages the story of the Salem witch trials by contrasting an analysis of the surviving primary documentation with the way events of 1692 have been mythologised by our culture. Resisting the temptation to explain the Salem witch trials in the context of an inclusive theoretical framework, the book examines a variety of individual motives that converged to precipitate the witch-hunt. Of the many assumptions about the Salem witch trials, the most persistent is that they were instigated by a circle of hysterical girls. Through an analysis of what actually happened - by perusal of the primary materials with the 'close reading' approach of a literary critic - a different picture emerges, one where 'hysteria' inappropriately describes the logical, rational strategies of accusation and confession followed by the accusers, males and females alike.
Author | : Bryan F. Le Beau |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2023-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000861309 |
Providing an accessible and comprehensive overview, The Story of the Salem Witch Trials explores the events between June 10 and September 22, 1692, when nineteen people were hanged, one was pressed to death and over 150 were jailed for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. This book explores the history of that event and provides a synthesis of the most recent scholarship on the subject. It places the trials into the context of the Great European Witch-Hunt and relates the events of 1692 to witch-hunting throughout seventeenth-century New England. Now in a third edition, this book has been updated to include an expanded section on the European origins of witch-hunts, an updated and expanded epilogue (which discusses the witch-hunts, real and imagined, historical and cultural, since 1692), and an extensive bibliography. This complex and difficult subject is covered in a uniquely accessible manner that captures all the drama that surrounded the Salem witch trials. From beginning to end, the reader is carried along by the author’s powerful narration and mastery of the subject. While covering the subject in impressive detail, Bryan Le Beau maintains a broad perspective on the events and, wherever possible, lets the historical characters speak for themselves. Le Beau highlights the decisions made by individuals responsible for the trials that helped turn what might have been a minor event into a crisis that has held the imagination of students of American history. This third edition of The Story of the Salem Witch Trials is essential for students and scholars alike who are interested in women’s and gender history, colonial American history, and early modern history.
Author | : Marc Aronson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2003-12-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0689848641 |