Witch hunts : from Salem to Guantanamo Bay / Robert Rapley.
| Author/creator |
Rapley, Robert, 1926-2022 |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, |
| Description | xii, 311 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references: p. [283]-311. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007281631 |
| ISBN | 9780773531864 |
| ISBN | 0773531866 |
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