Witchcraft
at
Salem
by
Chadwick Hansen
 
This 252 page book is in Very Good condition. No spine creases, writing, torn or folded pages. Smudges on inside title page, minor bumps to corners, and shelf wear.
Witchcraft at Salem: "Hansen writes that witchcraft actually was practiced in seventeenth-century New England, as it was in Europe at the time. Moreover the behavior of the afflicted persons was not fraudulent as some have claimed, but pathological. Hansen provides a necessary and thoughtful reappraisal of this turbulent episode in American history."
"Chaddwick Hansen may be on of the few historians who have studied the surviving reports as an objective account of what actually happened, and from this rare historical purchase he tells a story that departs significantly from the traditional version. It undermines the work of generations of American historians who could make sense of the witchcraft trials only by seeing evidence of fraud, malice, and the harsh moral politics that marked Puritanism at the end of the 17th century." The New Your Times Book Review
 

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