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A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse / edited by Richard Ward.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife, 2947-6356
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social history.
- World history.
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- History, Modern.
- Criminal law.
- Forensic psychology.
- Social History.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Cultural History.
- Modern History.
- Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law.
- Forensic Psychology.
- Local Subjects:
- Social History.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Cultural History.
- Modern History.
- Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law.
- Forensic Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 313 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke Springer Nature 2015
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- Foreword; Pieter SpierenburgIntroduction: A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse; Richard Ward1. Punishing the Dead: Execution and the Executed Body in Eighteenth-Century Ireland; James Kelly2. 'For the Benefit of Example': Crime-Scene Executions in England, 1720-1830; Steve Poole3. The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England; Zoe Dyndor4. Never Equal before Death: Three Experiences of Dying as seen through Eighteenth-Century French Executions; Pascal Bastien5. The Ill-Treated Body: Punishing and Utilizing the Early Modern Suicide Corpse; Alexander Ka;stner and Evelyne Luef6. Execution and its Aftermath in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire; Clare Anderson7. Strangled by the Chinese and Kept 'Alive' by the British: Two Infamous Executions and the Discourse of Chinese Legal Despotism; Song-Chuan Chen8. Dismembering and Remembering the Body: Execution and Post-Execution Display in Africa, c.1870-2000; Stacey Hynd9. Burying the Past? The Post-Execution History of Nazi War Criminals; Caroline Sharples.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY
- ISBN:
- 9781137444011
- 1137444010
- OCLC:
- 922700612
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