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Switching Sides: How a Generation of Historians Lost Sympathy for the Victims of the Salem Witch Hunt,Used
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Why have so many recent scholars of colonial witchcraft written sympathetically about the accusers while ignoring their victims?For most historians living through the fascist and communist tyrannies that culminated in World War II and the Cold War, the Salem witch trials signified the threat to truth and individual integrity posed by mass ideological movements. Work on the trials produced in this era, including Arthur Millers The Crucible and Marion L. Starkeys The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials, left little doubt that most intellectuals sympathies lay with the twenty innocent victims who stood up to Puritan intolerance by choosing to go to their deaths rather than confess to crimes they had never committed.In Switching Sides, Tony Fels traces a remarkable shift in scholarly interpretations of the Salem witch hunt from the postWorld War II era up through the present. 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 nations conscience. Readers will come away from the book with a sound knowledge of what is currently known about the Salem witch huntand pondering the relationship between works of history and the ideological influences on the historians who write them.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Q: What is the main theme of 'Switching Sides'? A: 'Switching Sides' explores the shift in scholarly interpretations of the Salem witch trials, focusing on how modern historians have begun to sympathize with the accusers rather than the victims.
- Q: Who is the author of 'Switching Sides'? A: The author of 'Switching Sides' is Tony Fels, who provides a detailed analysis of the changing perspectives on the Salem witch hunt.
- Q: When was 'Switching Sides' published? A: 'Switching Sides' was published on January 25, 2018.
- Q: What type of binding does 'Switching Sides' have? A: 'Switching Sides' is available in paperback binding.
- Q: How many pages are in 'Switching Sides'? A: 'Switching Sides' contains 280 pages of content.
- Q: What is the target audience for 'Switching Sides'? A: 'Switching Sides' is aimed at an educated American public interested in the historical significance of the Salem witch trials.
- Q: Does 'Switching Sides' include illustrations? A: 'Switching Sides' is noted as an illustrated edition, meaning it may contain relevant images or diagrams to support the text.
- Q: What historical period does 'Switching Sides' focus on? A: 'Switching Sides' focuses on the Colonial Period, specifically the events surrounding the Salem witch trials.
- Q: What can readers expect to learn from 'Switching Sides'? A: Readers can expect to gain a sound knowledge of the Salem witch trials and the ideological influences that affect historical interpretation.
- Q: Is 'Switching Sides' suitable for academic research? A: 'Switching Sides' is meticulously documented, making it a suitable resource for academic research on the Salem witch trials and historical interpretations.