Witch hunts : from Salem to Guantanamo Bay

Witch hunts : from Salem to Guantanamo Bay /

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Rapley, Robert, 1926-2022
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007
Subjects:
Terrorism > Prevention > Political aspects > United States.
Judicial error > History.
Trials (Witchcraft) > History.
Prisoners > Abuse of > History.
Civil rights > Case studies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

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