Table of Contents

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

Promotional Information

Why have so many recent scholars of colonial witchcraft written sympathetically about the accusers while ignoring their victims?

About the Author

Tony Fels is an associate professor of history at the University of San Francisco.

Reviews

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