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Autore |
Bennett Rachel E |
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Titolo |
Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834 [[electronic resource] /] / by Rachel E. Bennett |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
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[1st ed. 2018.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XV, 237 p. 1 illus.) |
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Collana |
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Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife |
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Great Britain—History |
Social history |
Crime—Sociological aspects |
Civilization—History |
History |
History of Britain and Ireland |
Social History |
Crime and Society |
Cultural History |
History of Science |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: The Implementation of the Death Sentence in Scotland -- Chapter 2: Capital Punishment and the Scottish Criminal Justice System -- Chapter 3: Contextualising the Punishment of Death -- Chapter 4: Scottish Women and the Hangman’s Noose -- Part II: The Theatre of the Gallows in Scotland -- Chapter 5: The Spectacle of the Scaffold -- Chapter 6: A Fate Worse than Death? Dissection and the Criminal Corpse -- Chapter 7: Hanging in Chains: The Criminal Corpse on Display -- Chapter 8: Conclusion -- Index. . |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century to date. Based upon an |
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