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The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff (Hardcover, 2015)

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This hardcover book, titled "The Witches: Salem, 1692" by Stacy Schiff, is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the history of witchcraft in Salem. Published in 2015 by Orion Publishing Group, this book provides a detailed account of the events that led to the infamous Salem Witch Trials. With a height of 242mm and a width of 160mm, this book has 512 pages filled with captivating information about the topic. The book is written in English and is classified as a textbook, making it a valuable addition to any history book collection. The author, Stacy Schiff, is an expert in her field and has provided a comprehensive overview of the subject.

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It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbours accused neighbours, parents accused children, husbands accused wives, children accused their parents, and siblings each other. Vividly capturing the dark, unsettled atmosphere of seventeenth-century America, Stacy Schiff's magisterial history draws us into this anxious time. She shows us how a band of adolescent girls brought the nascent colony to its knees, and how quickly the epidemic of accusations, trials, and executions span out of control. Above all, Schiff's astonishing research reveals details and complexity that few other historians have seen. Every detail of colonial life just decades after the first landing - family, farming, praying, housekeeping, dangers of life at wilderness's edge, estrangement from England, the pressures of a life dominated by Biblical thought - is rendered with a clarity that makes almost inconceivable events comprehensible. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, as magnificently written as it is deeply researched, THE WITCHES breathes new life into one of history's most enduring mysteries.