Switching Sides : How a Generation of Historians Lost Sympathy for the Victims of the Salem Witch Hunt
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"Tony Fels traces a remarkable shift in scholarly interpretations of the Salem witch hunt from the post-World War II era up through the present. In Switching Sides , Tony Fels explains that for a new generation of historians influenced by the radicalism of the New Left in the 1960s and early 1970s, the Salem panic acquired a startlingly different meaning. Determined to champion the common people of colonial New England, dismissive toward liberal values, and no longer instinctively wary of utopian belief systems, the leading works on the subject to emerge from 1969 through the early 2000s highlighted economic changes, social tensions, racial conflicts, and political developments that served to unsettle the accusers in the witchcraft proceedings. These interpretations, still dominant in the academic world, encourage readers to sympathize with the perpetrators of the witch hunt, while at the same time showing indifference or even hostility toward the accused. Switching Sides is meticulously documented, but its comparatively short text aims broadly at an educated American public, for whom the Salem witch hunt has long occupied an iconic place in the nation's conscience. Readers will come away from the book with a sound knowledge of what is currently known about the Salem witch hunt -- and pondering the relationship between works of history and the ideological influences on the historians who write them. "With vivacious prose, palpable passion, and powerful reasoning, he delivers a book that is dramatic and dynamic. A rare work of critical historiography that could actually matter, Switching Sides is a brilliant and impassioned volume that will be a must-read for all students of early America." -- Michael W. Zuckerman, author of Peaceable Kingdoms"--,Provided by Freading.
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Fels, T. (2018). Switching Sides: How a Generation of Historians Lost Sympathy for the Victims of the Salem Witch Hunt . Johns Hopkins University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Fels, Tony, 1949-. 2018. Switching Sides: How a Generation of Historians Lost Sympathy for the Victims of the Salem Witch Hunt. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Fels, Tony, 1949-. Switching Sides: How a Generation of Historians Lost Sympathy for the Victims of the Salem Witch Hunt Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Fels, Tony. Switching Sides: How a Generation of Historians Lost Sympathy for the Victims of the Salem Witch Hunt Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
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