03490nam 2200793Ia 450 991078982450332120231206205306.00-7735-7881-11-282-86765-297866128676510-7735-7720-310.1515/9780773577206(CKB)2670000000080737(OCoLC)716069048(CaPaEBR)ebrary10424263(SSID)ssj0000444835(PQKBManifestationID)11287379(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000444835(PQKBWorkID)10480916(PQKB)10148562(CEL)433040(CaBNvSL)slc00225523(Au-PeEL)EBL3332036(CaPaEBR)ebr10558985(CaONFJC)MIL286765(OCoLC)923233886(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/dp1fbd(MiAaPQ)EBC3332036(DE-B1597)654571(DE-B1597)9780773577206(MiAaPQ)EBC3271301(EXLCZ)99267000000008073720071121d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrWitch hunts[electronic resource] from Salem to Guantanamo Bay /Robert RapleyMontreal McGill-Queen's University Pressc20071 online resource (324 p.)0-7735-3186-6 Includes bibliographical references: p. [283]-311.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.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 Guildford and Maguire terrorist prosecutions in Britain in the 1970s. All three cases took place during times of extreme fear and paranoia and in all cases the accused were innocent.Civil rightsHistoryCase studiesTrials (Witchcraft)HistoryCase studiesJudicial errorHistoryCase studiesTerrorismPolitical aspectsUnited StatesTerrorismUnited StatesPreventionPrisonersAbuse ofHistoryCivil rightsHistoryTrials (Witchcraft)HistoryJudicial errorHistoryTerrorismPolitical aspectsTerrorismPrevention.PrisonersAbuse ofHistory.323.4/915.60bclRapley Robert1926-2022.1472014MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789824503321Witch hunts3684600UNINA