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A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse
Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
ISBN/EAN: 9781137443991
Umbreit-Nr.: 5427748
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xvi, 313 S., 7 s/w Illustr., 313 p. 7 illus.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 04.10.2015
Auflage: 1/2015
- Zusatztext
- 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.
- Kurztext
- 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.
- Autorenportrait
- 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