Mary Beth Norton: 4 books
Separated by Their Sex
Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-American public sphere by the middle of the eighteenth century. Earlier, high-status men and women alike had been recognized as appropriate political actors,...
In the Devil's Snare
The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in thisstartlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study.
In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had...
1774
The Long Year of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020
From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2018 president of the American Historical Association, a groundbreaking book, the first to look at the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April...
Founding Mothers & Fathers
Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Much like A Midwife's Tale and The Unredeemed Captive, this novel is about power relationships in early American society, religion, and politics--with insights into the initial development and operation of government, the maintenance of social order, and the experiences of individual men and women.