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Autore |
Rapley Robert <1926-2022.> |
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Titolo |
Witch hunts [[electronic resource] ] : from Salem to Guantanamo Bay / / Robert Rapley |
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Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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0-7735-7881-1 |
1-282-86765-2 |
9786612867651 |
0-7735-7720-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Civil rights - History |
Trials (Witchcraft) - History |
Judicial error - History |
Terrorism - Political aspects - United States |
Terrorism - United States - Prevention |
Prisoners - Abuse of - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references: p. [283]-311. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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Rapley analyses witch hunts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and finds many of the same elements repeated in more recent miscarriages of justice - from the Dreyfus case for treason in late nineteenth-century France, to the persecution of the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama for the gang rape of two white girls in the 1930s, to the |
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