Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Rapley, Robert, 1926-2022.

Title Witch hunts : from Salem to Guantanamo Bay / Robert Rapley.

Publication Info. Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2007]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010.
©2007

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xii, 311 pages)
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-311).
Contents 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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Terrorism -- Prevention -- Political aspects -- United States.
Terrorism -- Prevention.
United States.
Judicial error -- History.
Judicial error.
History.
Trials (Witchcraft) -- History.
Trials (Witchcraft)
Prisoners -- Abuse of -- History.
Prisoners -- Abuse of.
Civil rights -- Case studies.
Civil rights.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: 9780773531864
ISBN 9780773577206 (electronic book)
0773577203 (electronic book)
9780773531864 (print)
0773531866