A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse (Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife)
ISBN-13:
9781137443991
ISBN-10:
1137443995
Edition:
1st ed. 2015
Author:
Richard Ward
Publication date:
2015
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Format:
Hardcover
329 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781137443991
ISBN-10:
1137443995
Edition:
1st ed. 2015
Author:
Richard Ward
Publication date:
2015
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Format:
Hardcover
329 pages
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A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse (Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife) (ISBN-13: 9781137443991 and ISBN-10: 1137443995), written by authors
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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.
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