LEADER 03490nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910818997403321 005 20231206205306.0 010 $a0-7735-7881-1 010 $a1-282-86765-2 010 $a9786612867651 010 $a0-7735-7720-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773577206 035 $a(CKB)2670000000080737 035 $a(OCoLC)716069048 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10424263 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000444835 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11287379 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000444835 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10480916 035 $a(PQKB)10148562 035 $a(CEL)433040 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00225523 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3332036 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10558985 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL286765 035 $a(OCoLC)923233886 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/dp1fbd 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3332036 035 $a(DE-B1597)654571 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773577206 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3271301 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000080737 100 $a20071121d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWitch hunts$b[electronic resource] $efrom Salem to Guantanamo Bay /$fRobert Rapley 210 $aMontreal $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (324 p.) 311 $a0-7735-3186-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references: p. [283]-311. 327 $aPt. 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 -- 327 $aPt. 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 -- 327 $aPt. 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. 330 $aRapley 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. 606 $aCivil rights$xHistory$vCase studies 606 $aTrials (Witchcraft)$xHistory$vCase studies 606 $aJudicial error$xHistory$vCase studies 606 $aTerrorism$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aTerrorism$zUnited States$xPrevention 606 $aPrisoners$xAbuse of$xHistory 615 0$aCivil rights$xHistory 615 0$aTrials (Witchcraft)$xHistory 615 0$aJudicial error$xHistory 615 0$aTerrorism$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aTerrorism$xPrevention. 615 0$aPrisoners$xAbuse of$xHistory. 676 $a323.4/9 686 $a15.60$2bcl 700 $aRapley$b Robert$f1926-2022.$01709461 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818997403321 996 $aWitch hunts$94099233 997 $aUNINA