A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse

Nonfiction, History, World History, Modern
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Author: ISBN: 9781137444011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK Publication: September 27, 2015
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9781137444011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication: September 27, 2015
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

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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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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