Stacy Schiff
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xvi, 496 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), map, portraits, facsimiles ; 21 cm
Formats
Description
An electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials... Along with suffrage and Prohibition, the Salem witch trials represent one of the few moments when women played the central role in American history. Drawing masterfully on the archives, Stacy Schiff introduces us to the strains on a Puritan adolescent's life and to the authorities whose delicate agendas were at risk. She illuminates the demands of a rigorous faith, the vulnerability of settlements...
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
viii, 368 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Though her life spanned fewer than 40 years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world.