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开 本: 大32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780375706905
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.
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