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A global history of execution and the criminal corpse

By Richard , Ward

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2015
ISBN
9781349552344, 9781137444011, 9781137443991, 1137443995, 9781137444004, 1137444002, 1137444010, 1349552348
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1703569 bytes)
Series
Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife
Pages
xvi, 313 pages ; 22 cm\330
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Capital punishment;Capital punishment--History;Cap

Description

"Across many different times and places the criminal corpse has been harnessed for the ends of state power, medical science, criminal justice, and political subversion, amongst other things. This collection of essays for the first time examines execution practice and the punishment of the criminal corpse across a wide chronological and geographical span, ranging from eighteenth-century England to nineteenth-century India and twentieth-century Africa. 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 which forces us to rethink current metanarratives of penal practice and change"--

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