Witch Hunts : From Salem to Guantanamo Bay.
Title:
Witch Hunts : From Salem to Guantanamo Bay.
Author:
Rapley, Robert.
ISBN:
9780773577206
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (324 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- Note on Sources -- PART ONE -- 1. Witches and Fear of the Devil -- 2. The Bamberg and Wurzburg Witch Hunts, 1626-1630 -- 3. The Characteristics of a Witch Hunt -- 4. The Devil in Loudun -- 5. The Arbitrary Terror of a Witch Hunt -- 6. The Salem Witches -- 7. Hysteria Set Loose -- PART TWO -- 8. The Dreyfus Affair -- 9. If It Walks Like a Duck -- 10. The Scottsboro Boys -- 11. The Witch Hunters -- 12. The Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven -- 13. Power, Secrecy, and the Witch Hunt -- PART THREE -- 14. America after 9/11 -- 15. The President -- 16. Muslim Fears -- 17. Guantanamo Bay -- 18. Torture, Rendition, and "Ghost Prisoners" -- 19. The Case of Maher Arar -- 20. The Shape of Things to Come -- Notes -- Bibliography.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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