A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse / / edited by Richard Ward
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| Titolo: |
A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse / / edited by Richard Ward
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| Pubblicazione: | Basingstoke, : Springer Nature, 2015 |
| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2015. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvi, 313 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 364.6609 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Classificazione: | HIS037000HIS037030HIS054000 |
| Persona (resp. second.): | WardRichard <1984-> |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse |
| ISBN: | 9781137444011 |
| 1137444010 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910765739603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife, . 2947-6356