In the Devil's Snare by Mary Beth Norton

In the Devil's Snare by Mary Beth Norton

Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem 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.

Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University, obtained her B.A. in history from the University of Pennsylvania. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Michigan. Harvard University is the source of this information. She teaches classes on early American history, women's history, the Atlantic world, and the American Revolution. The Society of American Historians, the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and the English-Speaking Union have all awarded her books prizes.

Her book FOUNDING MOTHERS & FATHERS (1996) was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. SEPARATED BY THEIR SEX: WOMEN IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN THE COLONIAL ATLANTIC WORLD, released in 2011, was her first book. In 2005-2006, she was Pitt Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge. Her fellowships have come from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Huntington Library, among others.

Professor Norton is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has served on the National Council for the Humanities. As a commentator on Early American history, she has been on Book TV, the History and Discovery Channels, PBS, and NBC.

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ISBN 13	9780375706905
ISBN 10	0375706909
Title	In the Devil's Snare
Author	Mary Beth Norton
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2003-10-14
Number of pages	448
Prizes	Winner of Ambassador Book Award 2003
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