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A Delusion Of Satan: The Full Story Of The Salem Witch Trials
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Mary Beth Norton · 448 pages
"In January 1692 in Salem Village, Massachusetts, two young girls began to suffer from inexplicable fits. Seventeen months later, after legal action had been taken against 144 people - 20 of them put to death - the ignominious Salem witchcraft trials finally came to an end.". "Now, Mary Beth Norton - one of our most admired historians - gives us a unique account of the events at Salem, helping us
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
Paul S. Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum · 231 pages
"The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more than a generation before building toward the climactic witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web adn who in the end found themselves entangled in it."--Page 4 of cover.
Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
Marc Aronson · 288 pages
What happened in Salem? Sifting through the facts, myths, half-truths, misinterpretations and theories the book presents a vivid narrative of one of the mysteries of American history.
The Witches: Salem, 1692
Stacy Schiff · 512 pages
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 80-year-old man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involv
The Penguin Book of Witches
Katherine Howe · 294 pages
"Chilling real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America from a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to newspaper coverage of a woman stoned to death on the streets of Philadelphia while the Continental Congress met, The Penguin Book of Witches is a treasury of historical accounts of ac
The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Inquiry into the Salem Witch Trials
Marion L. Starkey · 322 pages
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
Zoe Venditozzi · 320 pages
Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem (History
Rosalyn Schanzer · 143 pages
Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
Marilynne K. Roach · 445 pages
"What was it like to be there and, if you were lucky, to live through it? In a compelling combination of narrative and groundbreaking historical research, Salem Witch Trial scholar Marilynne K. Roach vividly brings the terrifying times to life while skillfully illuminating the lives of the accused, the accusers, and the afflicted."--P. [4] of cover.
The Witchcraft of Salem Village
Shirley Jackson · 146 pages
Describes the social and religious conditions surrounding the Salem witch hunts, the extensive trials and executions, and the aftermath of the hysteria.
Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts
Anne Llewellyn Barstow · 272 pages
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare · 249 pages
Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean island she left behind. In her relatives' stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that is now caged and lonely. The only place where Kit feels completely free is
The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries
Carlo Ginzburg · 216 pages
Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ritual battles against witches and wizards, to protect their villages and harvests. If they won, the harvest would be good, if they lost, there would be
The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900
Diana Preston · 436 pages
"The Boxer Rebellion is a panoramic chronicle of the uprising and ensuing two-month siege of the eleven foreign ministries in Peking (now Beijing), and of the foreign community in Tientsin (now Tianjin), during the summer of 1900 - the repercussions of which have echoed throughout the intervening century. It left tens of thousands of Chinese dead, precipitated the end of dynastic rule in China, an
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
Robert Middlekauff · 736 pages
Recounts the events leading up to the Revolution and discusses the major leaders, campaigns, and battles of the war.
Africa: A Biography of the Continent
John Reader · 816 pages
"In Africa, the American nature photographer Art Wolfe returns to the dramatic vistas and astonishing animal life of the continent he has explored with affection and enthusiasm over many years. Whether they are close-up portraits of exotic animals and birds in their native habitats or sweeping panoramas of Africa's various eco-environments, Wolfe's full-colour images are exceptionally compelling.
Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America
John Charles Chasteen · 352 pages
"This history of Latin America will delight any reader. Fully informed by the latest scholarship, this survey spans six centuries and covers twenty countries. John Charles Chasteen presents a narrative of the Latin American experience, animated by stories about men and women from all walks of life, and enriched by insightful analysis. The famous and not so famous characters of Latin America are h
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
Ira Berlin · 504 pages
Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost two hundred years of African-American life in mainland North America, few slaves grew cotton, lived in the deep South, or embraced Christianity. Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first arr
The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War
Fred Anderson · 306 pages
The globe's first true world war comes vividly to life in this "rich, cautionary tale" (The New York Times Book Review) The French and Indian War —the North American phase of a far larger conflagration, the Seven Years' War—remains one of the most important, and yet misunderstood, episodes in American history. Fred Anderson takes readers on a remarkable journey through the vast conflict that, betw
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia
Karl Ernest Meyer, Shareen Blair Brysac · 647 pages
"The world's oldest established imperial rivalry had its start during the Napoleonic age when British agents came upon the tracks of Russian rivals in snowbound Tibet, and then again in mythic Bokhara, deep in Central Asia. Was the Tsar planning to invade India, or even worse, was Russia bent on global dominion? To foil these real or imagined schemes, the British twice invaded Afghanistan, and in
Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
Laurent Dubois · 374 pages
The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few years, the slave insurgents forced the French administrators of the colony to emancipate them, a decision ratified by revolutionary Paris in 1794. T
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
Jill Lepore · 323 pages