Mary Beth Norton

Broschiertes Buch

In the Devil's Snare

The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

Beschreibung

A vivid historical chronicle evokes the spirit of late seventeenth-century Massachusetts in an incisive study of the Salem witch trials, discussing the events, the crucial turning points in the case, the accusers and accused, the confessors, and the judges, setting it all against the backdrop of the social, cultural, and political atmosphere of the period. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Autor

Mary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University. She is the author of The British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774—1789 (1972); Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750—1800 (1980); Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (1996), which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and (with five others) A People and a Nation (6th ed., 2001). She has also edited several works on women’s history and served as the general editor of The AHA Guide to Historical Literature (3rd ed., 1995).

Produktdetails

• Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 137mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9780375706905
• ISBN-10: 0375706909
• Artikelnr.: 21455185