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Author Rapley, Robert, 1926-2022

Title Witch hunts : from Salem to Guantanamo Bay / Robert Rapley
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2007 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 311 pages)
Contents pt. 1. Witches and fear of the devil -- The Bamberg and Wurzburg witch hunts, 1626-1630 -- The characteristics of a witch hunt -- The devil in Loudun -- The arbitrary terror of a witch hunt -- The Salem witches -- Hysteria set loose
pt. 2. The Dreyfus affair -- If it walks like a duck -- The Scottsboro boys -- The witch hunters -- The Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven -- Poer, secrecy, and the witch hunt
pt. 3. America after 9/11 -- The president -- Muslim fears -- Guantanamo Bay -- Torture, rendition, and "ghost prisoners" -- The case of Maher Arat -- The shape of things to come
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-311)
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Subject Terrorism -- Prevention -- Political aspects -- United States
Judicial error -- History
Trials (Witchcraft) -- History
Prisoners -- Abuse of -- History
Civil rights -- Case studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Terrorism.
Civil rights
Judicial error
Prisoners -- Abuse of
Trials (Witchcraft)
Heksenvervolgingen.
Massahysterie.
Rechterlijke dwalingen.
Terrorisme.
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773577206
0773577203