1 copy ordered for Malmö stadsarkiv:Dawit Isaak-biblioteket on 2022-06-17.
Descript
xxiv, 308 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
The ruin of all witches tells the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation. These were the turbulent beginnings of colonial America, when English settlers' dreams of love and liberty, of founding a 'city on a hill', gave way to paranoia and terror, enmity and rage. ... Through the gripping micro-history of a family tragedy, we glimpse an entire society caught in agonized transition between supernatural obsessions and the age of enlightenment