Witch Hunts
Download or Read eBook Witch Hunts PDF written by Robert Rapley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007-02-09 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Robert Rapley |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 491 |
| Release | : 2007-02-09 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780773578814 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0773578811 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Witch Hunts by : Robert Rapley
Book excerpt: 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.
