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Political Science Terrorism

Witch Hunts

From Salem to Guantanamo Bay

by (author) Robert Rapley

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2007
Category
Terrorism
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773531864
    Publish Date
    Feb 2007
    List Price
    $40.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773578814
    Publish Date
    Feb 2007
    List Price
    $40.95

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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.

About the author

Robert Rapley is the author of A Case of Witchcraft: The Trial of Urbain Grandier. A retired civil servant, he lives in Ottawa.

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