List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Starkey's Devil in Massachusetts and the Post–World War II
Consensus
2. Boyer and Nissenbaum's Salem Possessed and theAnti-capitalist
Critique
An Aside
3. Demos's Entertaining Satan and the Functionalist Perspective
4. Karlsen's Devil in the Shape of a Woman andFeminist
Interpretations
5. Norton's In the Devil's Snare and Racial Approaches I
6. Norton's In the Devil's Snare and Racial Approaches II
Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Why have so many recent scholars of colonial witchcraft written sympathetically about the accusers while ignoring their victims?
Tony Fels is an associate professor of history at the University of San Francisco.
This is a book that is important in college, especially for young
historians, because it helps us become better ones and shows us
that ways of looking at things do change. Even people who are not
historians will find this interesting, as it shows that history is
a living, breathing, topic.
—Manhattan Book Review
There is much to learn from Fels' in-depth exploration . . .
[Switching Sides] is an important work for anyone teaching
historiography and/or Salem witchcraft . . . a useful tool in
introducing students to how history is studied and written.
—Francis J. Bremer, Millersville University of Pennsylvania,
Teaching History: A Journal of Methods
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