A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse / / edited by Richard Ward

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910765739603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basingstoke, : Springer Nature, 2015; London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015
• ISBN: 9781137444011; 1137444010
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 313 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife, , 2947-6356
• Classificazione: HIS037000HIS037030HIS054000
• Disciplina: 364.6609
• Soggetti: Social history; World history; Civilization - History; 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
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.