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A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse, 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife Series
Coordinator: Ward Richard
Language: EnglishSubjects for A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse:
Keywords
Capital punishment; death penalty; executions; hanging; criminals; bodies; global; international; global history; history; punishment
Publication date: 10-2015
313 p. · 14x21.6 cm · Hardback
313 p. · 14x21.6 cm · Hardback
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Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment.
The chapters 'Introduction: A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse' and 'The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England' are open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Clare Anderson, University of Leicester, UK Pascal Bastien, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Song-Chuan Chen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Zoe Dyndor, University of Leicester, UK Stacey Hynd, University of Exeter, UK Alexander Kästner, Technical University Dresden, Germany James Kelly, Dublin City University, Ireland Evelyne Luef, University of Vienna, Austria Steve Poole, University of the West of England, UK Caroline Sharples, University of Sussex, UK
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