Witches - Salem, 1692 (Schiff Stacy)(Paperback)
Výrobce: Orion
EAN: 9781474602266
The panic began early in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a ministers niece began to writhe and roar. It spread quickly, confounding the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, husbands accused wives, parents and children one another. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death.Speaking loudly and emphatically, adolescent girls stood at the center of the crisis. Along with suffrage and Prohibition, the Salem witch trials represent one of the few moments when women played the central role in American history. Drawing masterfully on the archives, Stacy Schiff introduces us to the strains on a Puritan adolescents life and to the authorities whose delicate agendas were at risk. She illuminates the demands of a rigorous faith, the vulnerability of settlements adrift from the mother country, perched-at a politically tumultuous time-on the edge of what a visitor termed a \remote, rocky, barren, bushy, wild-woody wilderness.\"With devastating clarity, the textures and tensions of colonial life emerge; hidden patterns subtly, startlingly detach themselves from the darkness. Schiff brings early American anxieties to the fore to align them brilliantly with our own. In an era of religious provocations, crowdsourcing, and invisible enemies, this enthralling story makes more sense than ever.The Witches is Schiff s riveting account of a sem
Parametry
Autor | Stacy Schiff |
Jazyk | anglický |
Nakladatelství | Nakladatelství |
Počet stran | 512 |
Rok vydania | 2016 |
Rok vydání | Rok vydání |
Typ | Typ |
jazyk | en |
Žánr | Žánr |
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