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Witch hunts : from Salem to Guantanamo Bay
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- Creator
- Robert Rapley
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xii, 311 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9786612867651, 0773578811, 0773577203, 0773531866, 9780773531864, 1282867652
- OCLC
- ocn716069048, ocn923233886, ocm71243450
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [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 Baoy -- Torture, rendition, and "ghost prisoners" -- The case of Maher Arat -- The shape of things to come