A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse

Herausgegeben:Ward, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan / Wellcome Trust
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-44399-1
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 313
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9781137443991
• ISBN-10: 1137443995
• Artikelnr.: 42234837

Autorenporträt

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

Rezensionen

"A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse is a fascinating set of essays that explore not only the socio-political contexts of the death penalty, but also the fate of the condemned after their deaths. ... It will be of interest to scholars of the criminal law, punishment, state-society relations, and the cultural history of death and the body." (Michael Meranze, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, January, 2017)