A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse

A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse
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Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9781137444011
ISBN-13 : 1137444010
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Book Synopsis A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse by : Richard Ward

Download or read book A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse written by Richard Ward and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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