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Alle Exemplare der Ausgabe mit dieser ISBN anzeigen:Schiff's is a feat of historical excavation and also of colourful reconstruction of the defendants, the husbands (never wives) who informed on them, the prosecutors and their grudges and the few rare
folk who evaded the hangman's noose. We are given these people's family contexts, their appearances and court dialogue is vividly captured. Much of it is moving
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen 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. Neighbours accused neighbours, parents accused children, husbands accused wives, children accused their parents, and siblings each other.
Vividly capturing the dark, unsettled atmosphere of seventeenth-century America, Stacy Schiff's magisterial history draws us into this anxious time. She shows us how a band of adolescent girls brought the nascent colony to its knees, and how quickly the epidemic of accusations, trials, and executions span out of control. Above all, Schiff's astonishing research reveals details and complexity that few other historians have seen. Every detail of colonial life just decades after the first landing - family, farming, praying, housekeeping, dangers of life at wilderness's edge, estrangement from England, the pressures of a life dominated by Biblical thought - is rendered with a clarity that makes almost inconceivable events comprehensible.
As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, as magnificently written as it is deeply researched, THE WITCHES breathes new life into one of history's most enduring mysteries.
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Buchbeschreibung 23.0 x 15.0cms, 496ppcolour illusts, very good- paperback 7 cover This book offers 'a startling fresh account' of the withchunt that convulsed Massachusetts and killed 20 people. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 191771
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Buchbeschreibung Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 496 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 159820
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Buchbeschreibung Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001899
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Buchbeschreibung Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.09. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G1474602258I5N00
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