Witch hunts [[electronic resource] ] : from Salem to Guantanamo Bay / / Robert Rapley
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| Autore: |
Rapley Robert <1926->
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| Titolo: |
Witch hunts [[electronic resource] ] : from Salem to Guantanamo Bay / / Robert Rapley
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| Pubblicazione: | Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 323.4/9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Civil rights - History |
| Trials (Witchcraft) - History | |
| Judicial error - History | |
| Terrorism - Political aspects - United States | |
| Terrorism - United States - Prevention | |
| Prisoners - Abuse of - History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references: p. [283]-311. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Witch hunts |
| ISBN: | 1-282-86765-2 |
| 9786612867651 | |
| 0-7735-7720-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459916703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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